Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

Rasmus Lerdorf

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• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

  

  Plato
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Enemies

• At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

  

  Bono U2
  • Action
  • Point
  • God Is

• If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Choice
  • Field
  • Rock Star

• Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

  

  David Swing
  • Condition
  • Contrast
  • Becomes

• I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Love Story
  • Nerdy

• My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Oxygen
  • Wheelchairs

• Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them. I did so then, and finally it seemed that I had only come up against yet another proof of how splendid and shadowy our friendship was, how long and complicated Lila’s suffering had been, how it still endured and would endure forever.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Relationship
  • Suffering
  • Friendship

• True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.

  

  Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Genius

• What counts is the cultural level.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Level
  • Counts
  • Cultural

• I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.

  

  Steve Capus
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Success

• No man knows what he can do until he tries.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Encouraging

• Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Trust
  • Powerful
  • Instinct

• When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Photograph

• Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Americans
  • Don't Understand
  • Japanese Nature

• The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.

  

  Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Rule
  • Used
  • Programming

• The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Attitude

• We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.

  

  Paul Gosar
  • Leadership
  • Serve
  • Elected

• There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Programming
  • Don't Understand