Peter Cook Quotes

Of course I read Braille, yes.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.

Okay... That's still blind-making.

I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

I'm comfortable not using my vision.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.

Blind eyes cannot read.

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

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.