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There is one quality more important than

There is one quality more important than “know-how” and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is “know-what” by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954

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