Ken Jennings Quotes

I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.

On 'The Chase,' I don't know what questions are going to appear, so they deliberately try and catch me out.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

I hate patience. Slows everything down.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go.

The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."