I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.

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

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

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

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 just restart Apache every 10 requests.

PHP is rarely the bottleneck.