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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. "
Rick Smolan
Bag
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Paper
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" 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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" Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Early
Fun
" 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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" 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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" The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data. "
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" I'm an optimist. "
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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. "
Rick Smolan
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Evil
Good
" 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. "
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You
Thought
" 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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Book
Interesting
Know
" 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
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American
Story
" 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
" If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%. "
Rick Smolan
Would
Were
Energy
" How do you photograph data? "
Rick Smolan
Photograph
Data
How
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Individual
Me
Kind
" I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules. "
Rick Smolan
Idea
People
Think
" 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'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
" 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
" I love the physicality of books. "
Rick Smolan
Love
Books
Physicality
" I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories. "
Rick Smolan
I Think
Memories
Going
" Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living. "
Rick Smolan
Right
Traditions
Before
" 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
" 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
" 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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Remember
Run
" 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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Drive
Data
Realize
" Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain. "
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Difficult
Data
Explain
" 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