Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

#1. I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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?

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#4. 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

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#5. Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.

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#6. There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

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#7. 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.

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#8. When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

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#9. I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems

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#10. This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.

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#11. I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?

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#12. PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

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#13. 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.

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#14. The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

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#15. 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.

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#16. Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.

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#17. I don't like programming. It's tedious.

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