A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it receives no support from those that would benefit. Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the leadin the introduction of a new order to things. Niccolo Machiavelli
They change, and we, who pass like foam,< John Masefield
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin. Denise McCluggage
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survive at all in the face of social change. Laurence Joseph McGinley
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. Henry Miller
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. Lewis Mumford
Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash
Ducking for apples; change one letter and it's the story of my life. Dorothy Parker
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. Richard Postgate
In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the 'no free lunch' law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty. Dr. Robert W. Prehoda
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. Marcel Proust
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. (Decision against Galileo) Roman Congregation
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. Carl T. Rowan
Change is one thing, progress is another. “Change” is scientific, “progress” is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Russell
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. Sallust
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer