December 3, 2003

The Known Unknowns

Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld's aphorism that there are "known unknowns" has won this year's Foot In Mouth award. BBCNews.com The whole bit is worthy of a Saturday Night Live skit:

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.

It's so good I plan to use it in a settlement meeting for one of my litigation cases tomorrow!!

 Posted by glenn

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