Quotes from Ted Bell

Skipper, I have radar contact.

out of the aircraft before it sinks like a bloody stone?

et cetera, et cetera, as the King of Siam would have put it.

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

Say nothing if you don't understand, stay silent if you do.

that a ship is a book that can ferry you away to distant worlds.

Sturm und Drang

torn limb from limb by vicious man-eating guard dogs.

The book-lined room was redolent of beeswax and old leather books, spilt whiskey on ancient woolen carpets, and whiffs of woodsmoke from fires long gone cold.

Torpex. Torpex is a secondary explosive fifty percent more powerful than TNT by mass.

ship would not and could

trusty old American .45—five cartridges in and the hammer down on the empty. The bulky blue steel revolver felt heavy and cold in his hand as he quickly snapped out the cylinder and checked the load. The slugs were scooped out and a deep cross had been cut into the head of each.

Nazi headquarters

They hid it obviously.

Help me lift off this cover.

if a man wishes to eat chicken, do you think he would wish to consume a chicken that has recently been, as you tell me, 'ranging free'? Some wild capon, capering about over hill and dale, wholly unsupervised? No! I think not, Mrs. Purvis! If Ambrose Congreve is to eat chicken, he bloody well wants to know where his chicken has been! Every minute of every day!

Cheeca Lodge on Islamorada.

Politics is the art of enriching oneself, the art of robbery.

while I was still at Oxford.

Well. Here's the thing. The beautiful minds out at Bletchley Park cracked the code on that one.

the three-rotor encoding machine that all the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) ships and subs at sea use in lieu of the Enigma.

A wise man never regrets the questions he asks. Only the ones he didn't ask.

Abject terror at one's dire surroundings is oft mitigated by strong drink, I find.