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" 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. "

Rick Smolan

Home

America

Life

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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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rick Smolan

You

Waiting

" 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. "

" I love the physicality of books. "

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

Rick Smolan

Privacy

Data

" 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

" I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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