@"PHP Performance" Talk, July 29, 2010 in San Francisco http://talks.php.net/show/digg/7
sitepoint.com http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf
“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.”
@rasmus http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/1938080214814720
“PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.”
@rasmus https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/466911047044300800
“Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen()”
http://news.php.net/php.internals/70691
Source: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006), Ch. 4, p. 52
sitepoint.com http://www.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf/2
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)
Context: I’d seen how Imagineering worked when they were on their own, building prototypes and conceptual mockups—I knew that the real bottleneck was the constant review and revisions, the ever-fluctuating groupmind consensus of the ad-hoc that commissioned their work.
Suneep looked sheepish. “Well, if all I have to do is satisfy myself that my plans are good and my buildings won’t fall down, I can make it happen very fast. Of course, my plans aren’t perfect. Sometimes, I’ll be halfway through a project when someone suggests a new flourish or approach that makes the whole thing immeasurably better.
“True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is…”
Source: The Eyre Affair
“Who never wins can rarely lose,
Who never climbs as rarely falls.”
To James T. Fields, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Time has told me
You're a rare, rare find,
A troubled cure for a troubled mind.”
Time Has Told Me
Song lyrics, Five Leaves Left (1969)
