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…

- Ken Jennings

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

- Ken Jennings

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was fu…

- Ken Jennings

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

- Ken Jennings

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 to us, wo…

- Ken Jennings

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

- Ken Jennings

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

- Ken Jennings

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 very prosaic pla…

- Ken Jennings

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

- Ken Jennings