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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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" 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

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

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

" 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

Valley

Nice

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans. "

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

" The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data. "

" There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future. "

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

" Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living. "

" 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. "

" 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

I Am

Problem

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How do you photograph data? "

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

Rick Smolan

I Think

Ability

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

" 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. "

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

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

Rick Smolan

Privacy

Data

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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