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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....
• 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...
• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince...
• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• The following is taken from the editorial section of the local newspaper in Rockingham.
  "In order to save a considerable amount of money, Rockingham's century-old town hall should be torn down and replaced by the larger and more energy-efficient building that some citizens have proposed....
• Barclay: "We could repair all of the reactors, simultaneously, instead of 'one- by-one'.
  Picard: "'Simultaneously'? All eighteen?" Barclay...
• If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make mistakes next time.
  I'd relax, I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I been this trip....
• Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• hog n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....