James Fallows Quotes

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• 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…
• Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country…
• For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and…
• I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he…
• When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and…
• Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
• When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept…

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