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

• It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Reading
  • Alone
  • Thanks

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

  

  George Gilder
  • Computer
  • Grows
  • Faster

• Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Programming
  • Bugs

• Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.

  

  Damian Conway
  • Always
  • Programming
  • Destructive

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

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Programming
  • Don't Understand