Ken Jennings Quotes

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

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, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

We were just looking at maps.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

When the terrain differs from the map, you have to go with the terrain.

Without geography you're nowhere.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.