Rasmus Lerdorf Professions : Programmer Born : November 22, 1968 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by 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 simple doe jobs 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 real memories moving 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 writing way ideas I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems. Rasmus Lerdorf problem-solving hate problem 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 coders excited terrible When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. Rasmus Lerdorf standards caring world I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems. Rasmus Lerdorf tools problem simple PHP is rarely the bottleneck. Rasmus Lerdorf bottlenecks I don't like programming. It's tedious. Rasmus Lerdorf techie programming tedious There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming. Rasmus Lerdorf programming people Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard. Rasmus Lerdorf bloody ugly problem 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 you ego people way This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named. Rasmus Lerdorf web your doing silly 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 something me you problem The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. Rasmus Lerdorf your you smart trying Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things. Rasmus Lerdorf than more things security 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 my-life never decision life Similar Authors Brad Fitzpatrick programmer David Heinemeier Hansson programmer Henry Spencer programmer Charles Petzold programmer Garry Kitchen programmer Eric S. Raymond programmer All Authors
