Quotes About Anonymity

Some people don't even say hello. They come up and say, 'Can I take your picture?' and I'm, like, 'Why?' And they say, 'Oh, you're that guy.' And I'm, like, 'Why do you want a photo of me if you don't even know my name?'

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

The combination of presence and anonymity - confession without penance, truth without consequences - it has its attractions. Getting the blood off your hands, one way or another.

That's one thing that amazes me about society. That is, that you can do damn near anything and nobody's gonna say anything or notice.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

In a society as mobile as your own, many people are totally anonymous to those around them. They do not care what they do before strangers or to strangers. If one feels no shame, punishment only angers. If one feels shame, punishment is almost unnecessary. Logically, therefore, your prisons should seek to instill shame, but even if it were possible, it would offend your civil libertarians to do so. "Shaming" others is considered an affront to their dignity.

I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

Life was a lot more adventurous before caller I.D.