89 Quotes by Ken Jennings

"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."

"Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer"

"There’s just something hypnotic about maps."

"The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing..."

"I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally."

"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."

"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek’s robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a ‘cyborg,’ not a ‘robot.’"

"In his book Why Geography Matters, the geographer Harm de Blij argues that the West’s three great challenges of our time – Islamist terrorism, global warming, and the rise of China – are all problems of geography. An informed citizenry has to understand place, not because place is more important than other kinds of knowledge but because it forms the foundation for so much other knowledge."

"If it’s on the Internet, then it’s gotta be true."

"You watch an old ‘Jeopardy!’ and the categories alone are very plain. ‘Poetry,’ or ‘Movies,’ or ‘Physics.’ If you watch it now, though, there’ll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions."