M[UMPS] Related Quotes

Valerie started this...:

I am looking for quotes and brief statements, from leaders, thinkers, doers (that's right, all levels!) in and of interest to the M[UMPS] community


I have just been collecting as they passed along
Ed de Moel


Ellis A. Bauman:

M[UMPS] is never having to say, "You're sorting".
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Ben Bishop:

M[UMPS] Programmer... licensed to KILL
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Old code never dies ... it just waits for the year 2000. Quietly.
Kim DeVaughn


Alan D. Frank:

Ben Jonson wrote: "My divine mumps." I don't have the exact citation, but I found it once in the OED, under mumps.


Larry D. Landis:

MUMPS is a pain in the neck; whereas COBOL is a pain occuring a little lower.


Jim A. Self:

M[UMPS] gives you a lot of rope to hang yourself.
Well, here I am 15 years later, still hanging and doing fine.