Quotes by Tom Clancy

“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.”

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

“I like writing. It's the most fun I've ever had at anything. You can build your own little world and — like a kid with his toy trains, — except instead of trains I have tanks and ships and airplane...”

“I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.”

“Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.”

“If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell. Comrades? One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some comm...”

“There's two kinds of people in the world, the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.”

“Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.”

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

“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 ...”

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

“The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.”

“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. There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's...”

“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.”

“Look, this is simple. The good old days are now. OK? The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.”

“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...”

“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 too...”

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

“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 w...”

“I was one of the first generations to watch television. That's technology. TV is like any other kind of tool. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it ba...”