Access Quotes - Page 24

• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  Vernor Vinge

  Information, Natural, Increase

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• You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.

  Eva Brann

  Mean, Bored, Unity

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• E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Data, Internet Access, People

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• Our goal is to give all Americans front-door access to the truth.

  Robert C. Maynard

  Doors, Giving, Goal

  Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

  Richard Holbrooke

  People, Enemy, Wish

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• Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, School

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• Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Quality, Rate

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• Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

  Sergey Brin

  Country, Book, Choices

  "A Library to Last Forever". www.nytimes.com. October 08, 2009.

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• It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Space, Three

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• The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

  Robin Hobb

  Children, Men, Tree

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.121, Spectra

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• We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.

  Charles Jennings

  Skills, Connections, World

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• Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

  Lisa Gansky

  Triumph, Talent, Ownership

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• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  Abraham Verghese

  Blessed, Thinking, America

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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• You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

  Omari Hardwick

  Heart, Thinking, Knows

  "'Sparkle' Star Omari Hardwick on Whitney and Movie Making". Interview with Brooke Obie, www.ebony.com. August 20, 2012.

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• At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

  Ray William Johnson

  Smart, What Matters, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

  Marc Rich

  Top Management, Two, Growth

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• A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

  Michael L. Brown

  Cleansing, Prerequisites, Conscience

  Michael L. Brown (2014). “Hyper-Grace”, p.49, Charisma Media

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• Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Population, Half, Care

  "Interview with Cynthia Nixon; Interview with Jennifer Love Hewitt; Interview with Serena Williams". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Travel, Thinking, Ideas

  "Cynthia Nixon: Abortion debate's new voice". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.

  Robert G. Allen

  World, Cash, Keyboards

  Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.

  Maynard Webb

  Technology, Opportunity, Training

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  Preet Bharara

  People, Directors, Dollars

  "How Prosecutor Preet Bharara Is Bringing Mob Squad Justice to Wall Street" by Massimo Calabresi, swampland.time.com. February 01, 2012.

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• The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

  Chris Cannon

  Spring, Ideas, Availability

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• My sons have such a deep access to my heart.

  Austin Peck

  Heart, Son, My Heart

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