Famous Quotes & Sayings

I sympathize with this person, but it's really not any different than a posting on an anonymous Web page.

In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.

Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night.

Daunte Culpepper

I have found over the years that people with knowledge of the situation are usually the most ignorant, and anonymous sources are usually synonymous with cowards who don't want to go on the record. My position has been and continues to be that I am focusing on rehabilitating my knee so that I can come back and play the game I love at the highest level.

John Rhys-Davies

I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to the next -- chain style. If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual experience. This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as Alcoholics Anonymous has since achieved.

David Stern

In the good old days, Chamberlain and Russell played in anonymity compared to Bird, Magic, Michael and Isiah. And even those guys played in less of a spotlight that our players today are playing in thanks to this saturated media environment.

I'm not sure what they expect to get out of this. If they expect to get out of it what people are doing on the Net, there are definitely more anonymous ways to do this.

Julie Walters

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Mark Ruffalo

I'm sacrificing part of my anonymity which I enjoy to have more options as far as what I can get off the ground. It's a give and take sort of thing.

In larger stores and areas, there is more anonymity from customers. We try to take away as much as that (anonymity) as we can.

I know that someone knows where Laci is -- and I'm pleading with you, please, please let her come home to us. You can send an anonymous letter to the police department telling them where she is or make an anonymous call to the police tip line at 209-342-6166.

The issue is that the codes were attached to anonymous samples. That's where the system broke down.

Scott Johnson

and its sad that you couldn't put all the other statements in here because they feared they'd be fired correct so they were the employees of the sheriff they weren't anonymous people that's correct commissioner...oh i just wanted that straight.

This is no longer a slum neighborhood. I haven't heard of a Cubs fan being shot in a long time.- Anonymous Wrigley Field Neighbor, Chicago, IL

The idea here is accessibility with no records. Anonymity at all costs.

There was an anonymous tip called into the Houston Police Department. The photo came into play because an associate of Potts' knew that to be his daughter. The woman he had this child with called him, and his daughter called him. She was mad at him because they were showing it on TV.

Taking names down will not only increase AEPU/Operating Expenses, but could also potentially eliminate a large number of customers -- who like the convenience of anonymous SIM cards for whatever reason.

Joichi Ito

I still believe that there are definitely costs to anonymity, but stifling anonymous speech is a huge cost to democracy.

Jonathan Zittrain

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.

And anon there came in a dove at a window, and in her mouth there seemed a little censer of gold, and therewithal there was such a savour as all the spicery of the world had been there.

Mathias Rust

All Orion and Isis members are anonymous - it works better that way. It allows everyone to work together without jealousy or personal issues.

John Emerson

A close figure skating competition will be decided by a computer choosing an anonymous panel of nine judges. In fairness to the skaters, all twelve scores should be used in awarding medals. Let's leave the computer out of it.

It's just a pack of clowns, just a bunch of idiots getting together and taking the opportunity to be relatively anonymous by all wearing the same clothing, making it difficult to identify who's done what.

Robert Fisk

American journalists go for safe stories. They don't like controversy. They don't like to say, 'I was a witness. I saw this. This is true. This is what happened." You have this constant business where journalists can never be the source; there has to be this anonymous diplomat.

It's too early to judge the truth of the report. But this time it looks like it's not based on an anonymous source but on a military report that, though secret, actually exists.

Kevin Mattson

There's a big difference (between the two approaches). They're talking about faculty representatives. We're talking about faculty-wide, anonymous voting, which I think is a much better assessment tool.

Colum McCann

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.

Penelope Cruz

I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.

Trent Reznor

I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.

Maria Bamford

I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.

Jackie Speier

There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

Lesley Manville

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.