One of the many DARPA pieces that blows my mind is Jeff Bezos maternal grandfather was Lawrence Preston Gise, (born 1915 - Nov 12, 1995) a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Pentagon Space Agency director, AND co-founder of DARPA.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell