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Quotes About Access

I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and before the Internet and before everything, just to get anything interesting, you had to go on vacation to San Francisco or something. But I think when you're in the middle of America, you feel very jealous of not just comedy but music that you don't have access to.
~ Matt Besser
You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
~ Melinda Gates
There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.
~ Laurie Garrett
Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I mean scientific review and not a political filter.
~ Wilbur Ross
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
~ Jay Samit
As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.
~ Evgeny Morozov
In 2007, when my husband Damian Woetzel took on the artistic direction at the Vail Valley International Dance Festival, we both felt it was important to offer the entire Vail community access to dance.
~ Heather Watts
One goal for Silicon Valley must be to redouble our collective efforts to make sure people of all backgrounds are aware of opportunities in tech.
~ Stacy Brown-Philpot
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
~ Arne Duncan
I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.
~ Leonard Orr
With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
~ Dorothy Denning
But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
~ Jesse James Garrett
On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
~ Gary Locke
I strongly believe that education is a human right and that it's extremely valuable, no matter where you live in the world.
~ Nina Agdal
My father believed young people are among our nation's most valuable resources, and so we should ensure that every child - including children and youth returning from the justice system - have access to the opportunities we would want for our own children.
~ Kerry Kennedy
When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.
~ John McAfee
With space exploration picking up, low-cost access to space will be required and I believe that Isro will be the go-to agency that would provide value for this kind of activity.
~ Rakesh Sharma
a surefire way to access that unconscious mind: repetition.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
But they said that you could find anyone these days, thanks to the Internet.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Those who hold power know very well the difference between a right and a permission … A right in a strict sense of the term gives access to the exercise of a power, at the expense of another power. A permission doesn't diminish the power of the one who gives it; it doesn't augment the power of the one who gets it. It makes his life easier, which is not nothing.
~ Unknown
What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves. If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for.
~ Jeanette Winterson
La liberté n'étant pas un fruit de tous les climats n'est pas à la portée de tous les peuples.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.
~ Larry Page
Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
~ Melinda Gates