Cay Quotes & Sayings

Under the rules of colonialism, everything goes to and comes from the mother country. In 1870, the colony of Turks and Caicos was asked to send a crest to England so that a flag for the colony could be designed. A Turks and Caicos designer drew a crest that included Salt Cay saltworks with salt rakers in the foreground and piles of salt. Back in England, it was the era of Arctic exploration, and, not knowing where the Turks and Caicos was, the English designer assumed the little white domes were igloos. And so he drew doors on each one. And this scene of salt piles with doors remained the official crest of the colony for almost 100 years, until replaced in 1968 by a crest featuring a flamingo. — Mark Kurlansky

The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles. — Cay Van Ash

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected. — Thomas Paine

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. — Mitch Albom

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound. — Joseph Brodsky

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy. — Nadia Boulanger

One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code. — Cay S. Horstmann

Abe, why do you not just add that Christians slaughter their newborns, are child molesters and F**k sheep, as then you would complete the arguments of Minicius Felix who you are eager to reproduce without quoting him? — Cay Hasselmann

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas. — David Copperfield

A $100,000,000 venture capital fund was set up solely for products using a specific computer language. — Cay S. Horstmann

So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet? — Cay S. Horstmann

The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity — Seneca.

DCL entered into a 99-year lease agreement with the Bahamian government in 1999, giving the cruise line the rights to develop what was then known as Gorda Cay. Renamed Castaway Cay by Disney, the island measures about 1.5 square miles and sits in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 80 miles north-northeast of Nassau, at about the same latitude as Fort Lauderdale, Florida (100 miles to the west). — Len Testa

Trump, who presents himself as a modern Midas even when much of what he touches turns to dross, has studied the conventions of journalists and displays more genius at exploiting them to his advantage than anyone else I have ever known. More — David Cay Johnston