"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()."

"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 dev…"

"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…"