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• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system.
  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones....
• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system.
  For the initiator has the emnity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones....
• There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things.
  For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order. -- Italo Bombolini...
• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• The future is no more uncertain than the present.
• Conduct is more convincing than language. -- John Woolma
• Things are more like they used to be than they are new.
• To approve is more difficult than to admire.
• What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
  -- Norbert Wiene...