Quote

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Tom Clancy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
Jr.
Thomas Clancy
Thomas L. Clancy
Use
Another
Thing
Thinking
Computers
Tool
Tools
Computer
Quite

More quotes by Tom Clancy

Image
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
Tom Clancy
Image
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if X happened? That's how you start.
Tom Clancy
Image
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.
Tom Clancy
Image
That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
Tom Clancy
Image
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Tom Clancy
Image
Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.
Tom Clancy
Image
Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.
Tom Clancy
Image
To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.
Tom Clancy
Image
Surviving is much more painful than death.
Tom Clancy
Image
I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.
Tom Clancy
Image
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: What if? and What next? (A third question, What now?, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if X happened? That's how you start.
Tom Clancy
Image
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
Tom Clancy
Image
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Tom Clancy
Image
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
Tom Clancy
Image
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Tom Clancy
Image
One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.
Tom Clancy
Image
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Tom Clancy
Image
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.
Tom Clancy
Image
I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.
Tom Clancy
Image
Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.
Tom Clancy