Lerdorf Quotes

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

#3. People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

Carey Mulligan

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

#5. 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.

Rasmus Lerdorf

#6. Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Edward Young

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

#8. 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.

Rasmus Lerdorf

#9. PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

Rasmus Lerdorf

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

#11. I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.

Louise Meriwether

#12. I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

Grover Cleveland

#13. Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Derek Jacobi

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

#16. 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

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

#19. Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if

Michael Jordan

#20. 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

Rasmus Lerdorf

#21. 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?

Rasmus Lerdorf

#22. Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.

John F. Kerry

#23. 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.

Rasmus Lerdorf

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

Rasmus Lerdorf