Rasmus Quotes & Sayings

We are people; human fucking beings, alive and kicking and wonderful in our weirdness. We are not spoons. And we should not act like we are". — Rasmus Hammarberg

The dying bees, the Antarctic melt, the mountains of old tires, the incessant toxic belch of factories that make Batman bobbleheads for Happy Meals. Off-gassing couches! Cancerous tinned tomatoes! Imprisoned killer whales! Our breastmilk is poisoned. We live absurdedly, ridiculously. OUR BREASTMILK IS POISONED. Try and explain even one sliver of it to a kid, just one angle of a thousand, and you'll see the face of the world's most incredulous and urgent WTF.

We have little to recommend us, and we know it. We shrug.

Rasmus Krook is the Captain of the Griffons. He doesn't shrug. — Kate Inglis

a single person whose heart is aflame with the love of God can create a wildfire that spreads far and wide — Rudy Rasmus

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

Sometimes we feel that the busier we are, the more important we are--as though our busyness defines our worth...We can spend a lifetime whirling about at a feverish pace, checking off list after list of things that in the end really don't matter.
That we do a lot may not be so important. That we focus the energy of our minds, our hearts, and our souls on those things of eternal significance--that is essential.
--Joseph B. Wirthlin — Carolyn J. Rasmus

What is the difference between gods and monsters? A god is just a monster you kneel to. — Rasmus Berggreen

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

It's an amazing thing that God wants to use your faith and my faith in order to perform the great and mighty acts of love that can transform all of humanity! — Rasmus Rudy

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

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

To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let unimportant things take over the things of real importance. — Carolyn J. Rasmus

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

We live in a noisy world. Revelation comes in the quiet times. It will come when the Lord can speak to our feelings. Go quietly. Go quietly into the world. Go quietly about your affairs, and learn that in the still, small hours of the morning the Lord will speak to you. He will never fail to answer your prayers.
--Boyd K. Packer — Carolyn J. Rasmus

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

I should have known," I said. "Silence seemed smart, but now he's made this huge."

Mr. Rasmus grunted. "We need a plan."

"We have a plan," I snapped. "Is there anything we really could have done besides marrying me off faster?"

General Leger stood with his back against a bookshelf, still staring at the blank screen. "We could kill him."

I sighed. "I really don't want that to be my go-to move. — Kiera Cass

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

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