Tom Clancy Quotes

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

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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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• 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?

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• The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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• Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn’t beat us.

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

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• Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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• 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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• 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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Birth:	12th April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

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