Quoting 'Just van Rossum' from a post on the OpenType mailing list:
[...] Sadly, some of the funniest quotes from the Python Quotations Collection are about Unicode (from http://www.amk.ca/quotations/python-quotes/ and beyond): I never realized it before, but having looked that over I'm certain I'd rather have my eyes burned out by zombies with flaming dung sticks than work on a conscientious Unicode regex engine. -- Tim Peters, 3 Dec 1998 Unicode: everyone wants it, until they get it. -- Barry Warsaw, 16 May 2000 I am becoming convinced that Unicode is a multi-national plot to take over the minds of our most gifted (and/or most obsessive) programmers, in pursuit of an elusive, unresolvable, and ultimately, undefinable goal. -- Ken Manheimer, 19 Jul 2001 Unicode is the first technology I have to deal with which makes me hope I die before I really really really need to understand it fully. -- David Ascher, 19 Jul 2001 roozbeh
