Top 26 Quotes by James Fallows

About James Fallows

These are some quotes by American author James Fallows Journalist, who was born on August 2, 1949.

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

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

James Fallows

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

James Fallows

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.

James Fallows

Make the important interesting.

Make the important interesting.

James Fallows

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.

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.

James Fallows

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.

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.

James Fallows

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

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

James Fallows

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

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

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.

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.

James Fallows

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

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

James Fallows

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