Quote by Mark Lutz

“useful thing about a File object is that it offers a much safer way to represent a file than just using a String file…

— Kathy Sierra

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

— Donald Knuth

“a raw string cannot end in an odd number of backslashes.”

— Mark Lutz

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported…

— Linus Torvalds

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,

— Dennis Ritchie

Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final…

— Saul Gorn

Blame me for having to type the backslash in DOS.

— Paul Allen

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

— Guido van Rossum

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

— Jeanette Winterson

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

— Kent Beck

“UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for “Use The Source, Luke.”

— Thomas Pynchon