„Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.“
— Jamie Zawinski American programmer 1968
alt.religion.emacs http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F0C496.370D7C45%40netscape.com (lost; recovered http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
Attributed