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" 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. "

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" A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family. "

" 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. "

" Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain. "

" Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it. "

" 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. "

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

" I love the physicality of books. "

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

" 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. "

" If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%. "

" 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. "

" One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist. "

" Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine. "

" Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How do you photograph data? "

" 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. "

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

" You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership. "

" 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. "

" There's a company in Boston called Ginger IO that has a smartphone app that can predict, two days before you get depressed, that you're going to get depressed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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 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. "