22 Quotes by Rasmus Lerdorf

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 :)

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

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.

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.

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?