The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
– Tom Clancy
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... 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.
– Tom Clancy
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
– Tom Clancy
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
– Tom Clancy
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
– Tom Clancy
What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.
– Tom Clancy
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
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
– Tom Clancy
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
– Tom Clancy
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.
– 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
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.
– Tom Clancy
Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die.
– 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?
– Tom Clancy
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
