American - Photographer | November 5, 1949 -
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.
Rick Smolan
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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.
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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.
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My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
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The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.
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I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love the physicality of books.
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The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.
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The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.
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