Ken Jennings Quotes

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Don’t think that intelligence stops with allies.

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Thinking is the highest form of leverage.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

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

Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.