Regex Quotes

“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I'll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.”
― Jamie Zawinski

“So the syntax of the regular-expression language is awful; there are various incompatible forms of the language; and the quotation conventions are baroquen [sic]. While regular expression languages are domain-specific languages, they are bad ones. Part of the value of examining regular expressions is to experience how bad things can be.”
― Chris Hanson, Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner