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Rasmus Lerdorf
17 quotes
“PHP 8 is significantly better because it contains a lot less of my code.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: @rasmus, November 2020.
“I did not develop the PHP we know today. Dozens, if not hundreds of people, developed PHP. I was simply the first developer.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Itconversations.com, 2007, "PHP on Hormones" at MySQL conference.
“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.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Itconversations.com, 2007, ditto.
“There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Itconversations.com, 2007, ditto.
“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 (born 1968) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Itconversations.com, 2007, ditto.
“I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: @rasmus (deleted), January 2010, in response to a tweet linking to this page.
“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 (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1968) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: @rasmus, April 2010.
“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: @rasmus, November 2010.
“PHP is rarely the bottleneck.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: @"PHP Performance" Talk, July 29, 2010 in San Francisco
“Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: php.devel Mailing List, October 2002
“PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: @rasmus, May 2014.
“Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen().”
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: php-internals mailing list, December 2013.