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Tom Clancy Quotes

Tom Clancy
  • "America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."
  • "Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."
  • "Computers are going to be even bigger. TVs are one way. You sit there and you watch it. Computers, you interact with."
  • "Countries that do not control knowledge and information tend to do better because the average guy who is exposed to a lot of information can get ideas and profit from them."
  • "Democracy is spreading across the world. Democracy is only possible with easy access to information and good communications. And technology is a way of facilitating communications."
  • "Do you own a TV set? Do you have CNN? Do you think you know better what's going on around the world than you did 15 years ago? You answered your own question."
  • "Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle."
  • "I don't discuss future works or works in progress."
  • "I hope people learn to appreciate our people in uniform. These aren't guys who just shoot 'em up. They plan. And they are extremely intelligent."
  • "I wanted a different way in which to tell my stories. Coming up with concepts for computer games gives me another avenue of creative expression."
  • "I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?"
  • "In case you haven't noticed, we live in a world that is for the first time in all of recorded human history unlikely to have a major war."
  • "In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything."
  • "It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."
  • "Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die."
  • "Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that."
  • "There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."


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