One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

More from Walter Bagehot

• It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.
• Nations touch at their summits.
• The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody. 1981