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!!