Ken Jennings Quotes

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
Ken Jennings

Decision, May, Brain

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
Ken Jennings

Sometimes, Off, Nerd

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
Ken Jennings

Live, America, Places

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
Ken Jennings

Brain, Understand, Before

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
Ken Jennings

Reason, Kids, Seem

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.
Ken Jennings

Used, Watch, Relax

I have always loved maps.
Ken Jennings

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
Ken Jennings

Kids, Lifetime, Illiteracy

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
Ken Jennings

Read, Weird, Knew

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
Ken Jennings

Hours, Stare, Maps

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
Ken Jennings

True, Internet, Gotta

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
Ken Jennings

Boring, Win, Same

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
Ken Jennings

Time, Tax, Changed

It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
Ken Jennings

Money, Fun, Cake

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
Ken Jennings

Knowing, Answers, Indeed

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.
Ken Jennings

Brain, Remember, Everyone

The future is here.
Ken Jennings

There's just something hypnotic about maps.
Ken Jennings

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
Ken Jennings

Hard, Less, Realize

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
Ken Jennings

Best, Win, Night

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
Ken Jennings

Life, Experience, Hard

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
Ken Jennings

Child, State, Started

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.
Ken Jennings

End, Jesus, Remember

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.
Ken Jennings

Time, Car, Single

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.
Ken Jennings

Simple, Find, Often

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Celebrity

Born: May 23, 1974

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