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Quotes About Accessibility

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
~ Charles Simonyi
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.
~ Alan Huffman
Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do.
~ Rachel Shenton
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.
~ Maya Angelou
We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.
~ Jeanne Shaheen
This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.
~ Albert Brooks
As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.
~ Andrew Weil
Gene therapy technology is much like computing technology. We had to build the super computer which cost $8 million in 1960. Now everyone has technologies that work predictably and at a cost the average person can afford.
~ Liz Parrish
Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
~ Kate Clinton
Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they're mega-stars.' I'm a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they've done instead of just getting an autograph.
~ Mike D
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
~ Jerry Saltz
There are a hundred thousand people on my Snapchat that I can talk to. And I think that's awesome.
~ Jason Nash
The internet is 95 percent porn and spam
~ Margaret Atwood
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
~ Ted Nelson
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
~ Mark McKinnon
Accessibility drives traffic and growth in technology. That's a proven trend in technology.
~ Sean Plott
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.
~ Jacque Fresco
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
~ Alex Comfort
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
~ Emily Greene Balch
As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.
~ Larry Page
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.
~ Bill Joy
I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
~ Edward Norton
I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
~ Yves Behar