The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far weve come from the cuddly old Im Feeling Lucky Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Googles evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like. – James Fallows
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
Theres no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems. – 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. – James Fallows
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, lifes big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics. – Rainn Wilson