Quotes About Regular Expressions

#1. 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

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

Jeremy Walker

#3. 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

#4. I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

Donald Knuth

#5. 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

#6. For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Cher

#7. The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for ... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

Forrest Church

#8. You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.

Lita Ford

#9. Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Oswald Chambers

#10. If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.

O.J. Simpson

#11. The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.

Lorrie Moore