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?"

"I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code."

"PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers."

"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 j…"

"I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems."

"I did not develop the PHP we know today. Dozens, if not hundreds of people, developed PHP. I was simply the first developer."

"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."