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" I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories. "
Rick Smolan
I Think
Memories
Going
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" 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. "
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" Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch. "
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" If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%. "
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" I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag. "
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" Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain. "
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" Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that. "
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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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" 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. "
Rick Smolan
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Data
Art
" 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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" You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership. "
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Data
Like
" They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity. "
Rick Smolan
Electricity
Heat
Up
" In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed. "
Rick Smolan
Children
American
Story
" The 'America at Home' project was aimed at being the most extensive record of American home life ever attempted, and we were amazed at how many people were willing to participate as photographers or to welcome the photographers into their homes. "
Rick Smolan
Home
America
Life
" I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College. "
Rick Smolan
Voted
Business
College
" I love the physicality of books. "
Rick Smolan
Love
Books
Physicality
" I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit. "
Rick Smolan
Born
Always
Shy
" If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up. "
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Picture
Remember
Run
" Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family. "
Rick Smolan
Eyes
Friends And Family
Family
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Medicine
Father
You
" I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't. "
Rick Smolan
I Think
Share
Ability
" 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. "
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Waiting
Me
" The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. "
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Korea
Heat
" As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used. "
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Individual
Me
Kind
" 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. "
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New
Data
Time
" The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data. "
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Living
Different
Data
" 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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Idea
People
Think
" Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine. "
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You
Stay
Medicine
" What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself. "
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Perspective
Realize
Situation
" A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's some day. If I know I'm likely to develop it, I'm certainly going to start looking around right now to find if there is something that I can do to offset it. "
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