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Top 25 James Fallows Quotes (2025 Update)

James Fallows Quote: “Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.”

1. “Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.”

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James Fallows Quote: “Make the important interesting.”

2. “Make the important interesting.”

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

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

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.”

5. “Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.”

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James Fallows Quote: “A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.”

6. “A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.”

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James Fallows Quote: “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”

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

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

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

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “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 could have made it as a writer.”

10. “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 could have made it as a writer.”

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

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

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

13. “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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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.”

15. “It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.”

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

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

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman’s beauty or one to four stars for a movie’s appeal.”

18. “The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman’s beauty or one to four stars for a movie’s appeal.”

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James Fallows Quote: “We’re now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work.”

19. “We’re now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work.”

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James Fallows Quote: “Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.”

20. “Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.”

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “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 other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China’s continued development.”

22. “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 other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China’s continued development.”

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.”

24. “Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.”

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “Every previous era looks innocent.”

26. “Every previous era looks innocent.”

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James Fallows Quote: “When a company is charging money for a product – as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync – you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.”

27. “When a company is charging money for a product – as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync – you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.”

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James Fallows Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

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James Fallows Quote: “There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.”

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

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