America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Computers are going to be even bigger. TVs are one way. You sit there and you watch it. Computers, you interact with.
Countries that do not control knowledge and information tend to do better because the average guy who is exposed to a lot of information can get ideas and profit from them.
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.
Do you own a TV set? Do you have CNN? Do you think you know better what's going on around the world than you did 15 years ago? You answered your own question.
Fans of the Rainbow Six game will be pleasantly surprised by the dramatic improvements, and new players will really enjoy it.
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.
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural wholesome things that money can buy.
I don't discuss future works or works in progress.
I hope people learn to appreciate our people in uniform. These aren't guys who just shoot 'em up. They plan. And they are extremely intelligent.
I just walked in from Fort Irwin, where I was rolling in the dirt with soldiers and having a good time.
I wanted a different way in which to tell my stories. Coming up with concepts for computer games gives me another avenue of creative expression.
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?
I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.
I've been reading military history since I was a kid.
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
If everyone in business prepared as carefully as professional soldiers, they'd be better off.
Immense intelligence is needed from our commanders.
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.
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.
It's a shame that Gen. Schwarzkopf didn't pay a little closer attention to what his field commanders were doing. But in his defense, he had political considerations to deal with.
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
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.
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?
Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
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.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
The good old days are now.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
The main achievement of the original Rainbow Six game is to establish a brand that we're now taking into the console market. I expect that Rainbow Six will be equally successful on those new platforms.
The most important thing for any game is that it is fun to play. That's really what we're trying to achieve.
There are parts of Rogue Spear based on real-life conflicts, but not everything is realistic. We did want to stress the importance of rescuing hostages, of minimizing the loss of life.
There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
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.
There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
To truly feel like we're fighting terrorism, we need as much intelligence and infiltration as possible into known rivals of democracy.
What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.
When the first mission of Rainbow Six was actually coming together we really started to realize that we might have a hit on our hands, but hadn't really expected the runaway success. To date we have sold through over 700,000 copies worldwide!
When you deploy forces, you must have a good reason. The country must be behind those forces. And they must be trained, prepared and supported.
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.
He is the genius behind the videogame, 'Splinter Cell' which is now a series.
Attempted to buy the Minnesota Vikings in the late 90's.But due to his divorce, he did not have sufficient funds. The team was instead bought by Red McCombs.
A woman in Washington D.C. read his novel "The Hunt For Red October" when it was first published by the Naval Press Institute in the 1980s, and loved it so much that she gave a copy to all her friends.One of those friends was President Ronald Reagan, who stepped off Marine One with the book tucked under his arm. A reporter saw the book and asked Reagan, "What are you reading?" Reagan then held up the book so everybody could see the cover and replied, "It's a really a good yarn." After Reagan's compliment, Tom Clancy's first novel became a best seller.
He sold his videogame company, Red Storm Entertainment, for $45 million.
He is co-owner of the Baltmore Orioles.
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