What? Yes it is.
Plus, it's meant to be funny, and I think it is. It's just a play on a famous quote, one variant of which is
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
"I know, I'll use regular expressions."
Now they have two problems.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/223634/what-is-meant-by-now-you-have-two-problems
http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
http://www.xkcd.com/1171/
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I certainly won't try to claim all XY problems have this form, but it does seem to account for a lot of them.
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