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Title: So who said this?
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on December 02, 2003, 01:10:07 PM

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.

Title: So who said this?
Post by: capt. apathy on December 02, 2003, 01:27:34 PM

rummy- our version of the iraqi information minister

Title: So who said this?
Post by: ra on December 02, 2003, 01:28:04 PM

Rumsfeld.  As I recall he was chuckling as he said it, but it is always quoted in its literal form as an attempt to prove that he is intellectually inferior to those who are quoting him.

Title: So who said this?
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on December 02, 2003, 02:01:38 PM

Rumsfeld is a genius..Ra on the other hard is a bit dim.

Title: So who said this?
Post by: ra on December 02, 2003, 02:44:28 PM

You don't know the unknowns.

Title: So who said this?
Post by: Tarmac on December 02, 2003, 03:03:01 PM

As much as I dislike Rumsfeld, I don't see what the problem with this quote is.  Yes, it's expressed in a cumbersome fashion, but it still makes perfect sense when you hear it.  

Do the people that mock Rumsfeld not understand him, or not understand the concept he was talking about?  Both seem pretty straightforward to me.

Title: So who said this?
Post by: Sikboy on December 02, 2003, 03:05:33 PM

Quote

Originally posted by ra
You don't know the unknowns.

Is that a known known?

-Sik

Title: So who said this?
Post by: capt. apathy on December 02, 2003, 03:13:33 PM

ya, it does make sense.  it's cumbersom and sounds like a Dr Suess rhyme, but there's nothing wrong with the logic of it.