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" I love the physicality of books. "

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" I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules. "

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" Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards. "

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" My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways. "

" If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong. "

" I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state. "

" The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet. "

" The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments. "

" The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art. "

" Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room. "

" Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that. "

" I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't. "

" My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings. "

" If you travel 11 months a year - from one dangerous or isolated situation to the next - if you live in hotels, and every relationship with another human being is a two-week relationship, the only other people who have any idea what you're going through or how strung out you are are other photographers. "

" I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories. "

" I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College. "

" The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting. "

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" How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature. "

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" I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient. "

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" I'm an optimist. "

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" My company, Against All Odds Productions, has done print on demand; we were the first to do a book with a CD-ROM in the early 1990s. We do custom covers. It's always fun to do something new. "