Immediate Access Quotes

The news is so instantly available to us without delay, interpretation, or a filter. What is hot right now is streamed live without context or perspective.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification.

What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

Because you know, we live in an era now where everything is pushed. We live in a push world where everything gets pushed to you. It's like, I don't have to wait for you to send it to me, I'll go get it off the Internet. So it was difficult to be back in that sort of situation. But it was cool.