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Quotes About Accessibility

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
~ Patrick Collison
Our role as a government is to bring this new technology into the proverbial sunshine so it becomes more accessible, more predictable and more productive for those who choose to participate.
~ Francis X. Suarez
Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.
~ Mukesh Ambani
There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.
~ Aneel Bhusri
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
~ David Byrne
If we want to be the banker to every Indian as we want to be, then we will have to use technology.
~ Arundhati Bhattacharya
We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.
~ Jamie Hyneman
Big telecommunications monopolies - many of whom now seek to be content providers as well - shouldn't be able to price others out of the market simply because they can't pay as much as the giants.
~ Maya Wiley
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
~ Sam Wyly
In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.
~ Diana Rigg
our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event. Few of us live lives so emotionally charged that we can truly, accurately retrieve all of it. ...Often only our crisis events are preserved with strong emotions. For our own survival we can't forget them, and then we too easily forget the good stuff.
~ Robert Dykstra
Anyone who has the price of a newspaper should have a fair chance of understanding most of what's written in it
~ Roger Ebert
The gym is always open, except when it's closed.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
~ Anita Borg
As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments what we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
~ Aldous Huxley
Her ÅŸeyin ula??labilir olduÄŸu bir dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin anlam? yoktur
~ Aldous Huxley
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
~ Donald Norman
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
~ Frances E. Willard
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
~ Jewish proverb
do I have to go back?" to "Why did I get to come to this place of silence?" I realized that the blessing I had received from this experience was the knowledge that deep internal peace is accessible to anyone at any time. I believe the experience of Nirvana exists in the consciousness of our right hemisphere, and that at any moment, we can choose to hook into that part of our brain. With this
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then.
~ Jim Al-Khalili
The web eliminates all hiding places.
~ Jim Povec
Charles Schwab created the company that bears his name—and a new category known as discount brokerage—around a different value chain. Not all customers want advice, so why should they have to pay for it? Take away all the activities needed to give advice, focus instead on executing trades, and you can create a different kind of value: low-cost trades that make stock ownership accessible to a wider customer base.
~ Joan Magretta