Rick Smolan Quotes

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.
A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.
'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.
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.
Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.
'Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car.
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.
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 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.
I love the physicality of books.
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.
I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.
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.
I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.
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.
If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.
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