Tom Clancy quotes - page 3

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. (Tom Clancy)

Beware the fury of a patient man.

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Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

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The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

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China has a lot of people and not enough space and the Russians have not too many people and a lot of space.

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A field commander never has the information he needs. He has to go with his best hunch. The more information he has, the easier it is for him to win the battle.

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Look, technology is another word for tool. There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. We got past that. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

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Back then "cruel and unusual punishment" meant the rack and burning at the stake - both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary America - but in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

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People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, they have more knowledge, they have more information. All this is the result of communications technology and the tools with which man has equipped himself. How is any of that bad?

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What underclass? I mean you know, what underclass? Do you know any of them? Do they have automobiles? Most of them probably do. Do most of them have television sets? Do most of them have telephones? Well, if they can afford automobiles, they can afford computers. And since they have television sets, they already have access to communications technology. And since they have telephones, they can talk to one another. Wherein are they deprived?

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Ansara was sprinting up the tunnel, increasing the gap, but Moore was beginning to slow as he heard the thundering boots of men coming down the staircase behind them. He stopped, spun around, and dropped onto his belly as, lit by the flickering light from the tunnel entrance, a figure rushed forward, arm extended. For just a heartbeat Moore glimpsed his assailant's face: the cartel truck's driver.
Propped up on his elbows now, Moore fired once into the figure's chest, the round booting him sideways into the panels before he fell onto his back.
From behind him came two more men, the rest of the weapons-transfer crew, their Belgian-made cop-killer pistols flashing, the shots booming through the tunnel as one 5.7x28-millimeter round struck the pipe near Moore's elbow. (Tom Clancy)

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.

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The Soviet Union is dead and gone and replaced by the Russian Federation, which is a country we can be friends with now, thank God - and we want the Russians to prosper, and should help the Russians prosper in every way we can within reason.

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The odds against becoming the next Frederick Forsythe are, of course, somewhere between merely exponential and astronomical-incredible. I'll settle for a book-jacket with my name on it.

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The average guy is smart enough to know the difference between what works and what doesn't, and if you have bad information, sooner or later, you figure it out and you get onto something else.

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To truly feel like we're fighting terrorism, we need as much intelligence and infiltration as possible into known rivals of democracy. Once that information is collected, a sincere commitment must be made to thwart their effects through unified/joint military resolve.

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The hard part is discriminating between factual reporting and journalistic fiction. Last year at the National Press Club I said out loud and in public [C-SPAN was there] that the difference between me and a lot of reporters is that I do good fiction. Some were polite enough to chuckle.

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Our tools keep getting better, and as a result of that, our lives keep getting better.

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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

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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. (Tom Clancy)

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.

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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.

Tom Clancy

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Tom Clancy

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?

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Tom Clancy

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: April 12, 1947
Died: October 1, 2013
Quotes count: 118
Wikipedia: Tom Clancy

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