Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Joichi Ito

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

Studs Terkel

The pharaohs didn't lift a finger. That's king and queen. Mrs. Pharaoh's fingernails were as immaculately manicured as Elizabeth Taylor's in Cleopatra. Who built the pyramids? Anonymous slaves down through the centuries.

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

We're trying to send a strong message that you are not anonymous when you participate in peer-to-peer file-sharing and that the illegal distribution of copyrighted music has consequences, ... And as this case illustrates, parents need to be aware of what their children are doing on their computers.

Monica Cruz

To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

I don't need to go to gamblers anonymous or anything but I like a flutter,

People seem to sometimes buy on the basis of spam e-mails in a situation where I'm not sure they would if it weren't coming over the Internet. If somebody found an anonymous tip in the mail, you'd throw it out, or it's junk mail. Culturally we know that.

People for too long thought they were anonymous on the Internet. People now realize they're not.

As players, it kind of concerns us because everything is done by anonymous sources. As players, we'd rather stuff be straightforward, whatever it may be, so you can focus on the guys who are going to be on your team and what direction people want to go. But this is a business, and we have to realize that. There's a lot of things that come of it, good and bad.

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.

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.

I don't see how a reporter can function in a sensitive beat without relying on anonymous sources -- even one anonymous source if the reporter has confidence in him.

Ever since the anonymous letter came out we have welcomed any and all testing. We feel very confident that the testing will show that we meet all codes and criteria.

We ask you to speak for all those silent, anonymous victims of tobacco grieved by their loved ones but unknown to a callous and deceitful industry,

Jose Rizal

Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?

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.

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.

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.

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

If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.

You're going to have problems with that because sexual predators try to remain anonymous by hiding and concealing their past.

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

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.

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.