Rasmus Lerdorf quotes

“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

Source : "Interview – PHP’s Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf". Interview wit Kevin Yank, www.sitepoint.com. May 22, 2002.

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“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

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“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

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“When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.”
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

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“PHP is rarely the bottleneck.”
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

Source : "PHP Performance" Talk in San Francisco, talks.php.net. July 29, 2010.

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

Source : Twitter post from Nov 9, 2010

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“I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems”
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

Source : "Interview – PHP’s Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf". Interview with Kevin Yank, www.sitepoint.com. May 22, 2002.

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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

Source : Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010

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“There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.”
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

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“I don't like programming. It's tedious.”
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

Source : "Why the father of PHP doesn’t like programming". DevBeat conference, venturebeat.com. November 13, 2013.

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

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