“Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.” PeopleThinkingIdeasEnoughUseInformationNeededRight NowComputerPercentOriginalsAccessDevicesDesksOriginal Ideas Author:Larry Ellison
“Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies” WorldHelpingGrowthTechnologyEconomyEconomicMissingEasierPercentAccountsFinancialPhonesAccessSignificantFinanceEmpoweringPortionsContinentsMobileEmpowering WomenEconomic GrowthPoorestBank AccountsMobile PhonesMissing OutFinancial ServicesAfrican Women Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
“Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.” WantRoomsTalkingFourEqualPercentSilentAccessHonestlyManagersKillersSixtyMentoring Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.” ShouldIndividualPercentInvestingAccessInvestorsPassiveQualified Author:David F. Swensen
“Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.” ThinkingWorldWantFirstsChildrenTwoWarDoneProblemCareYoungWorrySupportViolenceConflictPercentResourcesThirdsVictimAccessSupposed To BeHealth CareLabourAssetsYoung WomenFundamentalismBeatenDomestic ViolenceProstitutionMen WomenRecessionsPrematureAccess To EducationVictims Of War Author:Isabel Allende
“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.” ThinkingNeedsKindSchoolGuyStuffHalfOpinionLaughingMinutesInformationTenPercentHigh SchoolAccessBarsDumbIdiotMake SenseLoudRealisingDumb GuyInformed Opinions Author:Bill Burr
“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.” YearsChanceFiveMonthsSummerPercentScientistDisappearAccessIceDataFive YearsNavyCapsSubmarines Author:Al Gore
“1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.” PeopleYearsMotherHateFallHouseMillionsFireCostPercentAccessBillionsIncomeAtmosphereElectricityCarbonLampsCarbon DioxideMetrics Author:Jacqueline Novogratz
“This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has gone up in 18 percent? Where has he been when the murder rate in New York is up 11 percent? Instead he and liberals like Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel and others, what they're doing is not supporting the police departments, not making sure that they're being supported, and they're letting them do their jobs. And so we have criminals who have easy access to guns.” ProblemJobsEasyPresidentGoneCrimeNew YorkPercentGunMurderPoliceBillsRateCriminalsAccessBarackDepartmentChicagoPolice DepartmentCrime RatesEasy Access Author:Chris Christie
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass
“We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.” LawCultureSpaceAwarenessEventsInformationPercentRaisesPopsAccessVideoFiftyPop Culture Author:Lizz Winstead
“We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.” YearsBelieveFiveInternetComputerPercentPhonesBoxesBritishAccessConsumersFive YearsMobileMobile PhonesPersonal Computers Author:Richard Branson