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Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being who ever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg... that's when the liberation of human thought happened, because people could read the thoughts of people across the world, and have thoughts of their own, and publish them and spread information around. (Tom Clancy)
Computers are going to be even bigger. TVs are one-way. You sit there and you watch it. Computers, you interact with. View quote
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The drafters of the Constitution had made one simple but far-reaching error. They'd assumed that the people selected by The People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they'd been. One could almost hear the "Oops!" View quote
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Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. View quote
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Wars are begun by frightened men. View quote
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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. View quote
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Success will ruin your life. View quote
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Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. View quote
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. View quote
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Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. View quote
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Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. (Tom Clancy)
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. View quote
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Even true believers had consciences, Too bad. View quote
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I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. View quote
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My vision for this book and the others in the series is to let people know what kind of commanders we have, ... You don't pick generals off park benches. ... They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it. And I want to get across to people the intellectual dimension of command, to let people know that it's hard to be a general. And the people we have with general stars on their shoulders are pretty smart and pretty good guys. View quote
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Your spouse and children need not get in its way, because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away. View quote
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America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. 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. The more information available to the average person, the greater the synergy that develops from it. View quote
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Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being who ever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg... that's when the liberation of human thought happened, because people could read the thoughts of people across the world, and have thoughts of their own, and publish them and spread information around. Anything that gets information to people is good. America has prospered because we're the most information-friendly society in the world. View quote
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