James Fallows Citas

• Escribe siempre cartas de enfado a tus enemigos. Nunca las envíes por correo.

  James Fallows

  Anger, Writing, Enemy

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Successful, Self, Progress

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Sacrifice, Unique, Thinking

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• Nos encontramos en uno de esos periodos en los que la realidad de la intensa presión sobre la clase media diverge de las suposiciones mantenidas durante mucho tiempo sobre cómo debería funcionar el chollo americano

  James Fallows

  Reality, Class, Long

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Stars, Women's Beauty, Four

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• 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

  Talking, People, Release

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

  James Fallows

  People, Prejudice, Messages

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

  James Fallows

  Fate, People, Society

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• Every previous era looks innocent.

  James Fallows

  Looks, Eras, Innocent

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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 carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

  James Fallows

  People, Chinese, Coal

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• No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

  James Fallows

  Jobs, Real, World

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• The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

  James Fallows

  Peaceful, Democracy, Als

  Fuente: www.abc.net.au

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Aire, Ciudades, Personas

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• Make the important interesting.

  James Fallows

  Interesting, Important

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• 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

  Views, Environmental, Development

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Design, Feelings, Google

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Dream, Father, World

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Beautiful, Order, Fans

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Doe, Incentives, Charging

  "The Danger of Free Google Software" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com.

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Cheer, Hero, Years

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• Los Juegos Olímpicos son para "la juventud del mundo", pero los organizan y puntúan los países. No es de extrañar que los países los traten como vehículos de orgullo nacional y asuman que su gente estará más interesada en sus propios atletas. Así que todos los que se estaban preparando para escribir una carta, un blog o un artículo de opinión sobre la cobertura machista de la NBC: ¡no se molesten! En realidad, están más por encima de los problemas que la mayoría. Además, su cobertura no se emite en ningún sitio excepto en Estados Unidos -lo sé, es porque no puedo conseguirlo que estoy viendo la Pistola de Aire Femenina-, así que no puedo irritar a nadie en ningún otro sitio.

  James Fallows

  Country, Athlete, Writing

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• If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.

  James Fallows

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

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• The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

  James Fallows

  Military, Party, Names

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Ignorance, Hands

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• El halcón y la paloma es una idea maravillosa para un libro, maravillosamente llevada a cabo. Nicholas Thompson ha utilizado nuevo material esclarecedor para presentar a cada uno de sus protagonistas de forma convincente, respetuosa, pero sin rodeos. Y lo que es aún más valioso, ha utilizado las interacciones y tensiones entre Paul Nitze y George Kennan para dar vida a gran parte de la política exterior estadounidense del siglo XX, con la riqueza humana siempre presente pero con las grandes cuestiones claras en toda su complejidad.

  James Fallows

  Book, Ideas, Issues

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