A Quote by Clive Thompson

The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

Clive Thompson

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Collaborate Internet Lets Produce Result Strangers Thousands Total Truly

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Clive Thompson
Canadian - Journalist
Born: 1968

The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the Internet its life and meaning.

Caterina Fake

I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.

Washed Out

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

James Altucher

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.

Matt Roper

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

Jaboukie Young-White

Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

Laurell K. Hamilton

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Judy Biggert

The result [of Hillary Clinton policy] will be millions more illegal immigrants; thousands of more violent, horrible crimes; and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen, as sure as you're standing there.

Donald Trump

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.

Ann Leckie

All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have jointly elected to bear. This is an inescapable fact of life. And it is also inescapable that exactly half of the investors will get a result below the median result after the croupiers' take, which median result may well be somewhere between unexciting and lousy.

Charlie Munger

The Internet makes it possible for everyone to collaborate.

Flying Lotus

The result of Hillary Clinton misconduct was the release of thousands and thousands of dangerous criminal aliens who should have been sent home to their countries. Instead we have them all over the place.

Donald Trump

People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday, the Bible in translation is being read to thousands and thousands in Africa. It is an integral part of their functioning and the way they look at the world.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.