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“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

@rasmus http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/12481790397

“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

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

php.devel Mailing List, October 2002 http://osdir.com/ml/php.devel/2002-10/msg00704.html

“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

sitepoint.com http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-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

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

“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

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail58.html quoted in www.dasgenie.com http://www.dasgenie.com/scrap/archives/000060.html

Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

“There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

People , Understanding

“PHP is rarely the bottleneck.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

@"PHP Performance" Talk, July 29, 2010 in San Francisco http://talks.php.net/show/digg/7

“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

sitepoint.com http://www.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf/2

Reading

“I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

sitepoint.com http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf/5

Love , Hate , Problem

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

Rasmus Lerdorf

@rasmus http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/1938080214814720

Problem

“PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

@rasmus https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/466911047044300800

“I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

Itconversations.com http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail58.html

“I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

@rasmus http://twitter.com/rasmus/statuses/7636370468

Memory

“I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

“Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen()”

Rasmus Lerdorf

http://news.php.net/php.internals/70691

“If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

PHP.net: eval http://php.net/eval, Anonymous comment, 2004
PHP in a Nutshell https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-in-a/0596100671/re47.html by Paul Hudson, 2005

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