Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

— Jamie Zawinski, alt.religion.emacs

Source: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F0C496.370D7C45%40netscape.com

A newsgroup post; the citation says it adapts a similar David Tilbrook quote.

Topics: programming, simplicity