#Accessibility Quotes

“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”

“Perfection can be had by everybody.”

“The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.”

“The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.”

“The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.”

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”

“The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.”

“I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.”

“I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”

“I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.”

“No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.”

“Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.”

“All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.”

“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”

“People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.”

“Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.”

“Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.”

“You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.”

“We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate.”

“Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?”

“What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.”

“Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.”

“I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.”

“There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.”