Rick Smolan

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 '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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.