Quotes About Access

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Freedom is a public library.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available

Once humans figure out how to access and control the psychic world, then the bean counters and lawyers will get to work." "That's fucking scary," Jolie replied. "If that happens, then when you dream, expect to pay for access to the psychic plane like paying for an Internet connection, plus all the related bullshit. Paranormal pop-up ads. Subconscious spam.

Si las cuatro perspectivas se integraran de manera adecuada, tendríamos acceso a cuatro aspectos diferentes de la misma realidad. El problema es que si las cuatro entran en conflicto, uno solo se relacionará con aquellos aspectos de la realidad que surjan de aquella perspectiva que se convierta en la dominante.

We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers. We call this 'culture'.

Although it's possible to emulate true access controls in Python classes, this is rarely done in practice, even for large systems.

Python programmers are able to write large OOP frameworks and applications without private declarations — an interesting finding about access controls in general that is beyond the scope of our purposes here.

That is, a class is a local scope and has access to enclosing local scopes, but it does not serve as an enclosing local scope to further nested code.

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.