Rasmus Lerdorf quotes

I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems. (Rasmus Lerdorf)
For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :) View quote
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Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard. View quote
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I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way. View quote
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PHP is rarely the bottleneck. View quote
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PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes? View quote
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I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems. View quote
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I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests. View quote
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There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming. View quote
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We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all. View quote
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I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code. (Rasmus Lerdorf)
I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable. View quote
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Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen() View quote
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If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question. View quote
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When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. View quote
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I did not develop the PHP we know today. Dozens, if not hundreds of people, developed PHP. I was simply the first developer. View quote
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PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers. View quote
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I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers. View quote
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I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function. View quote
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This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named. View quote
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If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control. (Rasmus Lerdorf)
I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension? View quote
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PHP 8 is significantly better because it contains a lot less of my code. View quote
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