Lerdorf Quotes & Sayings

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming. — Rasmus Lerdorf

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. — Rasmus Lerdorf

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. — Rasmus Lerdorf

I don't like programming. It's tedious. — Rasmus Lerdorf

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

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

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

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

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

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things. — Rasmus Lerdorf

I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems. — Rasmus Lerdorf

PHP is rarely the bottleneck. — 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? — Rasmus Lerdorf

Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard. — Rasmus Lerdorf

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named. — 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 — Rasmus Lerdorf

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems — Rasmus Lerdorf