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Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: November 5th, 1949

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