Unknown Unknowns
United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld won the 2003 Foot In Mouth Award for this comment:
'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.'
I wish I was his speech writer.
United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld won the 2003 Foot In Mouth Award for this comment:
'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.'
I wish I was his speech writer.
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