Quotes & Sayings About Regular Expressions

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

precisely the same way the pastoral novels of George Sand, which she was giving me for my birthday, were regular lumber-rooms of antique furniture, full of expressions that have fallen out of use and returned as imagery, such as one finds now only in country dialects. — Marcel Proust

Just as there is a difference between playing a musical piece well and making music, there is a difference between knowing about regular expressions and really understanding them. — Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

As the old programming adage goes: you had a problem and tried to solve it using regular expressions. — Jeremy Walker

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. — Donald Knuth