Former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld used to send out between 40 and 60 memos a day to his staff, a level of craziness that is difficult to comprehend.

He called these little memos, containing his wisdom, "snowflakes."

Courtesy of the Washington Post, here are some excerpts:

"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist."

The guy was hilarious.

And nuts.