Rasmus Lerdorf famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Jobs #Simple #Tools
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

#Memories #Real #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 #Ideas #Way
When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

#Caring #World #Standards
PHP is rarely the bottleneck.
-- Rasmus Lerdorf
I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

#Simple #Tools #Problem
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

#Hate #Problem #Problem Solving
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
There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

#People #Programming
I don't like programming. It's tedious.
-- Rasmus Lerdorf

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

#Ugly #Problem #Bloody

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