Innovations

I recently finished the novel Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and looking at a citation given at the beginning of another book "Information theory, evolution, and the theory of life" I found it nicely summed up parts of the Fountainhead story:

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 for fear of their
adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity
of men, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual
experience of it.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1519), The Prince, Chapter 6.