Quotes About Anonymity

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.

wasn't adaptable. She needed the city. She needed congestion. She needed masses of people where she could lose herself and simply exist, anonymously, without the constant scrutiny of others. Courtney

Fading into the wallpaper was so much safer than being noticed.

But she was Barbara Monroe, of Chicago, Illinois. She had attended a big-city high school, Mather. A big school in a big city was easier to fake than a small one, because anyone could be forgotten in a big school.

Prester John's letter was actually written by imaginative monks toiling in anonymity

Staying unnoticed was how you survived.

You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.

You know, few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim that they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves.

Pseudonym: writing under a false name so that one may write more truly.

De los demás maraqueados durante el convivio, nada. Nadita. Humo, fantasmas. Unas decenas más a las listas de los desaparecidos anónimos. Ni una mención a la masacre en el ejido La Providencia. Morirse en Narcolandia representaba un one way ticket a la Dimensión Desconocida.

We dislike matter, that is ourselves, because we are destined to matter, because anonymous matter is called death. Perhaps it isn't matter we dislike, perhaps it's anonymity. The anonymity to which we are destined - the loss of name - is what we repress at any price.

In crisis, the Old Army maxim ran, seek refuge in anonymity.

Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.

You know what they say at [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings. Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.' 'I didn't know you were in the program.' 'I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.

some with plywood hiding his name.

Deepnet. It's Internet stuff that doesn't register on surface search sites like Google. A bunch of underground sites use this thing called the Tor network, which is basically a bunch of connected random volunteer servers that pass data back and forth in an elaborate routing system with multiple levels of encryption to maintain secrecy.

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.