Guest BROWNer Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 unknown unknowns my favourite definitely the last. but i disagree with the commentator...it does not make sense. the first time i heard him say this i thought it did, but... first he says there are 'no knowns'. then he turns around and says 'there are things we know that we know'........then, 'there are known unknowns'......... if there are no knowns, how can there be known knowns and unknowns? how can you know there are things you know and don't know if there are no knowns in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 http://www.iuma.com/images/Band/rt_end-shape-C6C6C6.gif'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 Nah, he doesn't say "no knowns" at first... he says "known knowns". It makes sense like that. Still fucking hilarious. Beer, El Mamerro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melty Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 I am not sure who they were talking about. He sounds like a normal person. Unlike our(usa) politicians. They go around and around without saying much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 oops, mams, this is actually the supposed full text of that quote: Rumsfeld baffles press with 'unknown unknowns' The United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has baffled journalists in Brussels by explaining the greatest threat to Western civilisation may lurk in what he has termed "unknown unknowns". Mr Rumsfeld says he told a meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) defence ministers that even US intelligence agencies can often only see the tip of the iceberg when looking for terrorist threats. But this is how he explained it at a media conference. "There are no knowns," Mr Rumsfeld. "There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know but there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know," Mr Rumsfeld said. "So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. "And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns." i know what he's getting at, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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