James Fallows Quotes & Sayings

“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”

“I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'”

“The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.”

“Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.”

“The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.”

“For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.”

“There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.”

“I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.”

“A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.”

“No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.”