Norman Friedman

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”
― Norman Friedman, E.E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry

“There seems no longer to be anything resembling the permanent structure which produced the Staff Requirements prominent in this book. Instead, ad hoc groups are formed. Their advantage – and disadvantage – is that they begin with a clean sheet of paper. Although members are aware of their own experience, they are unlikely to be aware of the many policy issues which had shaped previous ships.”
― Norman Friedman, British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War & After