Quotes About Access

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

It's weird for minorities even just to buy tickets to the ballet. We feel like it's not a part of our lives and we're not a part of that world.

It never occurred to me that one could just buy tickets to the Tonys. I figured you had to be invited.

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

By developing symbols of value, groups can strengthen participation and commitment. People eagerly work to acquire and show off emblems. So it only makes sense that companies should develop emblems of value. Prestigious groups monitor access to remain sought-after, rare, and valuable. Insider brands usually control how many people get access to the brand; otherwise, oversaturation cheapens status and destroys value.

The last thing your guests want is to be hanging around unable to get into your house.

There is so much knowledge available today that there can be no such thing anymore as a classical education that we can expect more than a relatively few people to share.

Contrary to what Comstock and the physicians on the jury seemed to believe, women in distress could find a way to end an unwanted pregnancy, so long as they could pay for it. For every case that came to public view because something went terribly wrong, there were a hundred or more that remained a private matter.

The library is a symbol of freedom.

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

There's only one way in and one way out of this world.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

The greatest privilege God gives to you is the freedom to approach Him at any time.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Here's the deal: in a perfect world, sanitary protection would be freely available to all.

Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other's lives. They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves.

One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession, one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity.... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.