Quotes About Access

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

And there are programs in every city designed to assist them to get off the streets, or so they say. But in truth only the most functional among the homeless are able to access these programs. Lines are endless, forms are impossible to decipher, qualifications can't be met, standards don't apply.

Now imagine a different society, for example the Congo or Haiti, where a large fraction of the population has no means of attending school, or where, if they manage to go to school, the quality of teaching is lamentable, where teachers do not show up for work, and even if they do, there may not be any books.

Wi-Fi is a blessing from the gods.

People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.

Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right.

There's nothing that could change our lives quicker than having the technology to access web-based services and communicate via text and email to providers of help and agency.

The elevator reads your ID, and then says hello.

It's the natural state of information to be free.

Too much information creates the same result as too little: you don't have what you need, when and in the way you need it.

Google makes everybody a genius.

America was full of opportunity, everybody said. You just had to unlock it. Only they forgot to give out keys for LuAnn's kind. Or maybe they didn't forget at all. Maybe it was intentional.

He didn't like having to pay for a phone that had Internet access, but it was like having a huge library and an army of research assistants on the cheap. He

He tried several keys he had taken from her purse until one worked.

preferred entering through the front.

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

The path of scientific discovery in U.S. communication research was not decided in advance by the government or anyone else, of course. Although government funding did not determine what could be said by social scientists, it did play a major role in determining who would do the "authoritative" talking about communication and an indirect role in determining who would enjoy access to the academic media necessary to be heard by others in the field.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

The hacker didn't succeed through sophistication. Rather he poked at obvious places, trying to enter through unlock doors. Persistence, not wizardry, let him through.

Richard Stallman, a free-lance computer programmer, loudly proclaimed that information should be free.

There are still many unseen, unvisited places in the world where decency of life is needed. Poverty is not the problem, but access to better living is the perennial dilemma.

Not everybody can enter an open door. Even the gates of heaven have limited slots during the open season.