Quotes by James Fallows

James Fallows

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.

People

Release

Talking

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

Assessment

Oil

Technology

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

Anger

Enemy

Writing

Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it’s beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It’s touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.

Cheer

Hero

Years

Every previous era looks innocent.

Eras

Innocent

Looks

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 corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

Country

Moving

Real

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

Infrastructure

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 its founding, and still do now.

Google

Levels

Media

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

Giants

Patents

Reform

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.

Boston

People

Phoenix

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Air

Als

Anger

Assessment

Assumption

Beautiful

Boston

Bureaucracy

Cases

Charging

Cheer

Choices

Cities

Country

Democracy

Design

Differences

Doe

Dream

Emphasis

Enemy

Environmental

Eras

Fans

Fate

Father

Feelings

Four

Giants

Google

Hero

Incentives

Infrastructure

Innocent

Islamic

Jobs

Levels

Looks

Media

Military

Moving

Needs

Oil

Order

Patents

Peaceful

People

Phoenix

Problem

Progress

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Quotes by James Fallows

James Fallows

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.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

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

Every previous era looks innocent.

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 corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

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 its founding, and still do now.

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

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.

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