Quotes About Privacy

Please dox me. You don't even need to dox me - I'll give you my address and wait for you by my doorstep.

Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

I just kind of keep doing what I'm doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I'd like to keep it.

My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

I kind of love walking around with something nobody else knows about in my back pocket.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing.

Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were performed - and there are thousands of poems which were performed but never got written down.

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

A person's body changing is simply not clearance for you to talk about it.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

I only entertain very close friends.