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" If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%. "
Rick Smolan
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" Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used. "
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Time
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Good
" Targeted ads, I think, are useful because I don't want to see all the crap. I'm not interested in buying a Mercedes Benz, but I am interested in buying a new MacBook Air. So if organizations like Facebook can actually make the ads more relevant to me, if they know what I am interested in, I have no problem with that. "
Rick Smolan
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" 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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You
Waiting
Me
" I love the physicality of books. "
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Love
Books
Physicality
" Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine. "
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You
Stay
Medicine
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Live
You
Travel
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Good
Pretend
Science
" The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting. "
Rick Smolan
Book
Interesting
Know
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Boston
Days
Company
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Wonder
Back
Enemy
" 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
Think
Data
Art
" I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College. "
Rick Smolan
Voted
Business
College
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
New
Data
Time
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Want
Watch
End
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Up
Valley
Nice
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
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
" 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 tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family. "
Rick Smolan
Family
Immigrant
Three
" The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments. "
Rick Smolan
Data
Now
People
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Drive
Data
Realize
" Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that. "
Rick Smolan
You
Stop
Start
" You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership. "
Rick Smolan
Privacy
Data
Like
" 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. "
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Born
Always
Shy
" Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it. "
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People
Some People
Facebook
" 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
" I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don't think there's ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us - who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we're buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is. "
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