The Ambler Warning Quotes

“Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning

“Just in time to pick up the shells after the shoot-out is over, I'm sure. I've known a few analysts and number crunchers. You work with paper, computers, pore over printouts-charts, graphs, scatter plots but you don't deal with people. You're more comfortable with bits and bytes,"

Caston tilted his head. "John Henry did beat the steam drill once. Maybe you were sleeping in when the information age dawned. Today, technology spans borders. It watches. It hears. It registers patterns, small statistical perturbations, and if we're willing to pay attention--"
"It can hear, but it can't listen. It can watch, but it can't observe And it sure as hell can't converse with the men and women we've got to deal with. There's no substitute for that, goddammit.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,”
― Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning

“Did your horoscope say your stars were in a bad alignment? Did an entrail reading priest find something nasty in the offal? I mean, look, if you know something I should know, let’s talk about it. If you got a racially justify belief, more power to you. But how many times do we have to go through this? We are grownups we should be responsive to facts. Not feelings.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning

“of people, not at the same time, but one after another. You ask: ‘Is this the one? Yes or no?’ If you switch to the seriatim method, the rate of misidentification plunges from seven percent to less than one percent.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning