Ken Jennings Quotes

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.

You see the guys sign the big contract, you see everybody on TV, but you don't see all the work that goes into that. It's a grind. And a lot of people don't see that grind.

The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Genius is the art of taking pains

I'm the queen of the nerds.

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

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.