Quotes About Access

The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

Because Blue Peter can get you access to places - if you go to somewhere like Nasa, you don't just see what most people see, you can get a lot of behind the scenes access. You can talk to an astronaut.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

You really can't function without a phone or an iPad.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.

I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.

It's not fair that people save and work and pay for phones from whatever funds they have, and other people get them for free.

Basic mobile phones can circumvent lack of broadband access, but only to a certain extent.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

Lockdowns have denied hundreds of thousands of kids access to football and, with no organised physical activity as an escape, some are becoming addicted to X-Boxes and Playstations.

As an emergency physician, I can tell you that the best health insurance in the world means nothing if patients can't reach a hospital in their moment of need.

Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

As both a consumer and producer of newspaper articles, I have no beef with pay walls. But before signing up, I read the fine print.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

When the National Theatre was built, it was a public building. If you wander round that building now, there are bits hived off for people who pay more money. That's happening across the arts.

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour.