Bats Quote by Gideon Defoe

“You can't reduce passion and flair and eating ham to numbers, sir!”

— Gideon Defoe

“Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines First Law: A difference engine must have at least six cogs. Second Law: A difference engine must be…

— Gideon Defoe

Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but…

— Gideon Defoe

“There was soot and orphans everywhere, and gaslit cobbled streets full of fog and sinister gentlemen out for a night of illicit murder. It…

— Gideon Defoe

“The Captain’s boat inspections were always pretty slapdash, because they mainly just involved him looking at the ropes and planks and barnacles and then…

— Gideon Defoe

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your…

— Gideon Defoe

This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully…

— Gideon Defoe

“I should say we’d reach England by Tuesday or thereabouts, with a decent wind behind us. It would be a lot quicker than that…

— Gideon Defoe

“Just then there came the wheezy sound of an accordion. It was an odd little tune that, had he been alive exactly one hundred…

— Gideon Defoe

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I…

— Gideon Defoe

“In his time the Pirate Captain had made a number of dramatic entrances of his own – not always intentional it had to be…

— Gideon Defoe

“It was about as close as you could get to the platonic ideal of a ham, if Plato had spent more time discussing hams…

— Gideon Defoe