Even the index of The Pleasures of Counting has its gems. (A footnote remarks that a discarded alternative for the title had been The Joy of x.)
On having broken 4-rotor Naval enigma decisively (p.389): "A more demonstrative age might have celebrated such a victory with a massive piece of statuary, perhaps showing a handsome but well-draped female representing Science with the armoured God of War prostate under her foot, or perhaps the giant figures of Blackett and Turing gazing forever over the Western Approaches."
