There is nothing magic about magic. The magician merely understands something simple which doesn’t appear to be simple or natural to the untrained audience. Once you learn how to hold a card while making your hand look empty, you only need practice before you, too, can “do magic.” Like a foreign language—once you learn it, it stops sounding like gibberish.”

Jeffrey E. F. Friedl — Mastering Regular Expressions: Understand Your Data and Be More Productive — Source: Link.