"[W]ar is so complex, it’s beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend allthe variables. Our judgement, our understanding, are not adequate."
— War

January 1, 1970

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Robert McNamara in The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, by Errol Morris (director), Columbia Tristar, 2004; as quoted in Antoine Bosquet, “Cyberneticizing the American War Machine: Science and Computers in the Cold War”, p. 95.