22 Quotes by Rasmus Lerdorf

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?

As a large collection of male geeks, we don't really know how to encourage/attract these female creatures. We certainly are not doing anything consciously to discourage females from volunteering and helping out.

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.

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.

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.

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

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

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