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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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"And we’re — really, I’m very happy the governors have been — the governors, really, have been doing a really good job working with us, and it’s — it’s, really, pretty impressive to see. I’ve spoken to…"

— Donald Trump

Politics1945

#leadership

"If we are to have a foundation upon which to continue to build a more perfect union, we must return unequivocally, as Lincoln returned, to the source of our greatness in the American Founding."

— Harry V. Jaffa

Philosophy1918–2015

#friendship

"Viewed schematically, the activities of governments involve first the politician, who buys votes for the party in power; then the impractical theorist in the civil service — usually a professor in dis…"

— Francis X. Sutton

Economics1917

#politics

"She's a very dishonest person. I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. She has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament and that's all it is, I have a st…"

— Donald Trump

Politics1945

#truth