Ken Jennings Quotes

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• 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…
• There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls…
• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate…
• Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
• 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.
• 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…
• For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
• I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
• I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
• 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...
• Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
• 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…
• I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.
• I have always loved maps.
• I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
• If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
• It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
• Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

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