Make things up as we go along and generally have no idea what how we'll get to where we want to go.

当我们开始踏上行程时，想清楚我们要去做的是什么，而且你对如何才能到达你想要去的地方不必非得要有一个清晰的概念。

youdao

What! How can that be?; What! Is that really so?

哦！会有这样的事？

《新英汉大辞典》

Using what, how and why questions encourages dialogue.

要考虑用什么问题和怎样的提问方式，才能鼓励他展开对话。

youdao

The jester spoke to him, "Who knew what the moon was made of and how far away it was.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

So I think this question is very much related to your first one about how we mistake what success really means.

我觉得这个问题与,你的第一个问题紧密相连,就是“我们对于成功的错误理解“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We need to know not only what are the primitives, but how do we make things meaningful in that language.

我们不仅需要知道什么是基本类型，还要知道我们在那种语言中,怎样使其变得有意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What and how you spend is vastly more important than what and how you tax.

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Unlike business intelligence systems using data warehouses, you did not have to know what how you were going to analyze the data when it arrive.

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Sorting out who does what and how often is what gives us the Laffer Curve.

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