"When you make a decision, you need facts.……" — Ken Jennings
"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
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
33 Quotes by Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings has 33 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch…
-
There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to…
-
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever…
-
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…
-
As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night,…
-
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...
See all 33 quotes by Ken Jennings »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »