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“Besides directory paths on Windows, raw strings are also commonly used for regular expressions”

— Mark Lutz

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Donald Knuth

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

— Graham Nelson

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

— Dee Brown

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

— Richard Turner

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

— David Crystal

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

— David Gries

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky…

— Richard Corliss

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

— Michel de Montaigne

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

— Douglas McIlroy

I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.

— Neal Stephenson