Top 51 Quotes by Rick Smolan

About Rick Smolan

These are some quotes by American author Rick Smolan Photographer, who was born on November 5, 1949.

I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.

I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.

Rick Smolan

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

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

Rick Smolan

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

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

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

Rick Smolan

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.

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.

Rick Smolan

'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.

'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.

Rick Smolan

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.

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.

Rick Smolan

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

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

Rick Smolan

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.

Rick Smolan

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 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.

Rick Smolan

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