The reason why so many fallacious opinions have passed into proverbs is owing to that carelessness which makes the individual instance the general rule.

The loop that counts from 1 to 1,000,000 is optimized out by the compiler, because nothing happens inside the loop and the value is not used afterwards.

Dismissing stability as the refusal to innovate (or rather cut costs), business leaders cast aspersions on the steadying tenets of the first half of the twentieth century, including social provisions and job security.

History and experience, the enshriners of the past, and investigation, the discoverer of the present and preparer for the future, will prevent retrogression.