Top 15 Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.

Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was <code>strlen()</code>.

PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.

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

PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

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

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 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 do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable.

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.

There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.

We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all.

I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.

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?

I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.