Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

Rasmus Lerdorf — Danish Scientist born on November 22, 1968,

Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Canadian programmer with Canadian citizenship. He created the PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participated in the development of later versions led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead, Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. He continues to contribute to the project... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?