Rick Smolan

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

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.

'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.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.