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Tom Clancy
April 12, 1947 -
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

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.

   

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?

   

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

    Topics: Computer

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

   

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

   

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

   

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

   

The good old days are now.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

   

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural wholesome things that money can buy.

   

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

   

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

   

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

   

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

   

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

   

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.

   

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

   

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

   

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