Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn’t be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves. Rick Smolan Read Quote
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. Rick Smolan Read Quote
Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it. Rick Smolan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Rick Smolan Read Quote
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. Rick Smolan Read Quote
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. Rick Smolan Read Quote
What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person’s perspective rather than the situation itself. Rick Smolan Read Quote
The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. Rick Smolan Read Quote
I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College. Rick Smolan Read Quote
