Quotes About Anonymity

His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?

It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and where people had a healthy curiosity as to who was who and where people had come from. It was very difficult to be anonymous, even in Gaborone, as there would always be neighbours who would want to know exactly what one was doing and who one's people had been.

Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.

It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb

This Fyfe kept a very low profile. He must have been worth tens of millions, minimum, but there was very little about him online—Altschuler had checked. Occasionally he was written up for donating to this charity or that, but he managed to keep his business interests strictly out of the public eye.

And social media makes this worse, doesn't it?" said Paige. "Much worse. Because it provides a bubble, an echo chamber. And it provides distance and anonymity, so people can be as vicious as they want, and never have to look their opponent in the eye. They never see them as loving parents or thoughtful neighbors, just as unseen members of a nebulous other.

Which means he has tech that can block his image from registering on cameras.

the industrial ideal: anyone can request work, do so anonymously, never meet the employee, and reject the results without ever paying. The

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.

Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

And now I enjoy the fact that I have this alter blog persona that nobody in my life know about. I have a secret. I am somebody important. I have the paychecks to prove it. The fact that nobody knows about it makes me feel even more important.

I was about to become the world's best-kept secret; one that would never be told. What a thrilling enigma for posterity I should be!

Then, they took things to the next level: They founded an anonymized text repo together,

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.

As long as I've been doing Ghost, at least, I've been very keen on maintaining not necessarily an anonymity but a low profile. But on the other hand, I spent 25 years not doing Ghost, where, 20 of those years, I wanted to be nothing but a famous rock musician.

I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

Mountain-climbing cars are built on a slant similar to the angle of a hat-brim of a man who doesn't want to be recognized.

and no one ever _know_ that you were