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Quotes from Rasmus Lerdorf

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
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.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
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
The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
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.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?
~ Rasmus Lerdorf