Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

I don't really love computers.

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net.

I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers - I didn't know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.

When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your history or search for it or explicitly try to find it. Apps on your phone have this special property: they hang around. In some ways, they're more like a book on a bookshelf than they are like web pages.

Records just happen.

When I'm back at my computer, and/or have more time to deal with the project than when I made the initial notes, I transcribe them into a Scrivener document. I create a new Scrivener file for every project, right at the start, and make a folder for these transcribed notes; when entering them, I title each note document according to date.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

I'm beating down the Internet as we speak.