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Stark Draper, who runs the big missile lab at M.I.T. and who invented inertial guidance and so on, says publicly, and he’s told me privately, that he doesn’t see any purpose in security classifications—because he says the only effect is to prevent American scientists from communicating adequately.

Administrative responsibility came naturally. He handled the staff adroitly and was always able to cajole crusty Cambridge printers into opening the forms and remaking a page for last-minute submissions by tardy college journalists. “In his geniality was a kind of frictionless command,” his co-editor, W. Russell Bowie, recalled.53

The old system, imperfect as it was, was responsive to the public. The new system—Moses’ system—was not.

the rate of technological change often exceeds the rate at which people can change their behavior.

Rather than standing athwart history yelling “stop,” as the postwar conservative William F. Buckley urged, or questioning the whole system of constant growth and military one-upsmanship that drove such roiling change, they formulated a model of human nature consistent with it.

Behind her spectacles were the eyes of the builder.

KEN GRIFFIN Founder and CEO, Citadel; Founder, Citadel Services

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History had taught republicans to distrust luminaries.