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" Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans. "
Rick Smolan
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" I'm an optimist. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't. "
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" Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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I Am
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Me
" 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. "
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Children
American
Story
" Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living. "
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Traditions
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" 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. "
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" 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
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Know
" 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. "
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Electricity
Heat
Up
" 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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Friends
Information
Think
" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College. "
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College
" 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. "
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" I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories. "
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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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" Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it. "
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People
Some People
Facebook
" 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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