Quotes About Progress

The printing press is the mother of errors.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.

"Women's rights will not go back to the Dark Side!" —Ruth Vader Ginsburg

It was exhilarating to help bring down the barriers that, in Justice Brennan's words, put women less "on a pedestal" than "in a cage." So much has changed for the better since then. True, we have not reached Nirvana, but the progress I have seen in my lifetime makes me optimistic for the future. Our communities, nation, and world will be increasingly improved as women achieve their rightful place in all fields of human endeavor.

Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, "We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Shape tomorrow by voting today.

Why can we land people on the Moon, machines on Mars and transfer trillions internationally, but can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

All that stands between the college graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that's what continuous improvement is all about.

For he who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Different isn't always better, but better is always different.

Never confuse movement with action.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

I see an America in which Martin Luther King's dream is our national dream.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I had a life once. Now I have a computer.

You must finish... every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

If the climate can change, then so can you.

Criminal Minds, Mixed Signals: "Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future."

New is something old that has been long forgotten.

In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.