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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. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#design #figure #final #jeopardy #know

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#board #categories #hitchcock #jeopardy #jokes

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you. ↗

— Charles Evers

#dependent #makes #someone #take #take care

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#choice #clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel? ↗

— Peter Jennings

#elect #feel #how #issues #makes

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#certainly #cynical #degree #i #i think

But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#am #feel #happened #i #i am

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#big #big hit #chet #could #days

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#felt #how #i #important #issue

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#centuries #freshness #joy #lightness #linked