On: Opposition to Sidewalk Labs in Toronto

[martincmartin]

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things; for the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order; this lukewarmness arising partly from the incredulity of mankind who does not truly believe in anything new until they actually have experience of it.

-- Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

[Apocryphon → martincmartin]

There is really very little of Machiavelli's one can accept or use in the contemporary world. - Henry Kissinger

[martincmartin → Apocryphon]

Well, that quote is really very little of Machiavelli. ;)