As I mentioned in my previous post, my book was just reviewed on Slashdot. One thing that struck me in reading all the resulting comments was the (several different copies of an) apparently famous quote that goes something like:

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

It’s apparently quite well known, so it floors me that this is the first I’ve seen it.

Heard it here first