21 quotes found
"PHP 8 is significantly better because it contains a lot less of my code."
"I did not develop the PHP we know today. Dozens, if not hundreds of people, developed PHP. I was simply the first developer."
"I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems."
"I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code."
"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 was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers."
"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."
"There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming."
"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."
"I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable."
"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."
"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've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems."
"PHP is rarely the bottleneck."
"Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard."
"PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers."
"Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen()."
"If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question."
"The establishment of the committee (on the greater foreign affairs and defense autonomy for Greenland and the Faroe Islands from Denmark) testifies to our common interest in strengthening cooperation across our countries. Not least to deal with the diversity of the countries' own interests and common interests. At the same time, it will strengthen Greenland's active participation in international relations in the globalized world, and create more elbow room which I have high expectations for."
"There are two issues that have been important in this election campaign: people's living conditions is one, and then there is our health and the environment."
"Our country, when you grew very old, your head was crowned with white hair. You carried steadfast your children in your arms and gave them what belonged to your coastland.We who here grew up with you as an immature people, as small children, we want to call ourselves kalâtdlit in front of your honorable head!And making use of all that belongs to you, we feel a desire to advance: bettering the conditions, which hold you back, we are firmly resolved to go forward, forward.We want very much to follow the mature people. We are longing to use the freedom of speech and press!There is not at all the slightest reason for holding back. Greenlanders, stand up on your feet, forward! It is well worth to live as men. Show that you can think for yourselves!"