Alan suggests the mottos of e-government pioneers should be these two Machiavelli quotes:

“Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime and only luke warm support is forthcoming from all those would prosper under the new”

“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”

+1 (shorthand for agreement)