Famous Quotes & Sayings

Underground democracy movements will always need the anonymity of simple paper documents, but this technology makes it easier for governments to find dissenters,

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.

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.

Charles Schumer

If you want to know the future in the black market of guns, it's the computer in your home, ... Under the anonymity of the Web, strangers meet on the Internet under aliases, discreetly bid for guns, and make the sale with no questions asked.

I never wanted to do on air. Because the fact that you're on air, people take shots at you for no reason, and that made me uncomfortable. So I retreated to the safety and anonymity of behind the camera.

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.

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.

The issue of privacy is a substantial one. People don't realize how much information has already been gathered about them. When you start seeing pop-up screens that say 'You bought boots at such-and-such a Web site, now check out our camping gear,' that will be distressing to a lot of people; they're going to look for some way to have anonymity online.

The feeling was that losing anonymity was off-putting for someone who wouldn't know where they would be in 18 years' time.

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

Hazel Blears

The new proposals outlined today would make suppliers accountable to the police and remove the anonymity of purchasers to deter impulsive purchases and irresponsible sales,

Linda Tripp

It's interesting how it completely changes your life because you can never get your privacy back. Your anonymity is gone.

Joss Whedon

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

Pat Sajak

It seems there is something about anonymity which brings out the worst in us. If you doubt that, come with me into the often-weird world of Internet chat rooms and message boards.

It?s a little shocking when you have a university like West Chester wanting you to give up your rights to anonymity and free speech. But that?s what this policy is doing. It is stifling all speech and it is unconstitutional.

Vint Cerf

Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe.

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.

Joe Johnston

Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

Joe Johnston

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

Denis O'Hare

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

Alistair Cooke

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

Judith Miller

Those who need anonymity are not only the poor and the powerless, those whose lives or jobs might be in jeopardy if they speak up publicly, but even the powerful, ... All are entitled to anonymity if they are telling the truth and have something of importance to say to the American people.

Total anonymity is not in the mayor's best interest, and so you have this game of the known anonymous giver. But who can blame him: He's giving $100 million, so he wants a little credit, but he doesn't want to be seen as trumpeting his giving.

We are going to continue to pursue this until we get some rules from the court that will protect users' anonymity online.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

We're not blowing this off, ... If the Army thinks it's in its interest to investigate something, we will. There are multiple challenges here. One is the anonymity of the sources, dates, times, locations, units, anything that is reasonably identifiable that we can work off of.

On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.

John Scalzi

I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Terrorists are using the Internet in an extraordinary way. We will target Internet cafes because we realize terrorists are going to these cafes because they have guaranteed anonymity there,

We had lived in blissful anonymity until that story came out. There were photographers around the next day.