Quotes About Access

In my first remarks as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to the agency's terrific staff, I stressed that one of my top priorities would be to close the digital divide - the gap between those who use cutting-edge communications services and those who do not.

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.

that this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas.

Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you're able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

Google is all about getting the right information to people quickly, easily, cheaply -- and for free. We serve the world -- all countries, at least 100 different languages. It's a powerful service that most people probably couldn't have dreamed of 20 years ago. It's available to the rich, the poor, street children in Cambodia, stock traders on Wall Street -- basically everybody. It's very democratic.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

The biggest problem in the world is not inequality. It's ignorance. It's the lack of access to education and information.

La paranoia —que para mí es un estado de acceso a la verdad— se ponía a descascararlo todo con sus garritas de hurón: no podía evitarlo.

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

If we are to access the Living Water Jesus promised, ultimately Love must become the only thing that governs behavior, not fear.

You can always trust information given to you by people who are crazy. They have access to truth not available through regular channels.

I'm not the president, so the president, has top secret clearance immediately. I don't. It takes time.

I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.

Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.

But in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power - 'knocking on the door', 'storming the citadel', 'smashing the glass ceiling', or just giving them a 'leg up' - underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

The number of countries that censor the internet has grown steadily, and now stands at more than forty.

Some properties should not be changed. The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42, and you want it to stay that way. Error and status flags will often be hard-coded into your classes. Although they should be publicly and statically available, client code should not be able to change them.

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it?

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.