James Fallows Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.”

“As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.”

“I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.”

“In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.”

“Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.”

“Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.”

“Make the important interesting.”

“I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.”

“Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.”

“Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.”