Quotes About Anonymity

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

I don't get recognized too much, which is cool because, you know, I don't want people to be overwhelmed.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.

A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

I've never sought to be known or recognized by people.

I used to follow people home. I just like being anonymous so much that I would follow people home because they didn't know who I was, and I could watch them. I know how that sounds. I could not exist but observe.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

I don't name sources.

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

Man nennt es "Deindividuation". Es passiert, wenn ein Polizist eine Uniform anzieht oder man sich eine Sonnenbrille aufsetzt, damit die Leute einem nicht in die Augen blicken können. Es ist, als würde man sich aus seinem normalen Ich davonstehlen – man fühlt sich anders, verhält sich anders.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

And while of course everyone, even the most wrecked and destitute among us, has a unique personal history, the problematic nature of trying to gather information about people who've severed too many basic ties is this—that in a sense we truly have history only insofar as it's shared, and too much uniqueness really leads away from individuality to anonymity, the great sea of the forgotten.

where it's not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can remember their names.