Mark Riebling (1963) American writer
Rumsfeld’s New Spy Unit (2002)
“A military hierarchy automatically places a premium on conservative behavior and dull conformance with precedent; it tends to penalize original and imaginative thinking.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Space Cadet
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 9 “Long Haul”, p. 101
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“The dull conformity of those years as they are generally imagined is something I don’t recognize.”
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Context: I look back in wonder at The Dud Avocado: in wonder at its initial reception and at the many times it’s been reissued — for years it was even republished alongside of every new book of mine that came out. I look back in wonder at the 1950s. The dull conformity of those years as they are generally imagined is something I don’t recognize. I look back in wonder at London in particular, where whole areas destroyed during the Second World War still lay in rubble. But London was in the midst of a renaissance for artists. In literature and playwriting the Angry Young Men were making their splash and new young actors like Richard Burton, Peter O Toole, Albert Finney, and Peter Finch were coming into their own. London was an orderly place where it was safe to take risks. Optimism was the rule of the day and I was there.
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian
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Jon Postel (1943–1998) American computer scientist
RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981) <br class="br">Often shortened to Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
