It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity. — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime. — Joe Johnston Copy Share Image
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty... — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“(Although the early Internet thrived on anonymity, platforms thrive on identity.)” — David L Rogers Copy Share Image
I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity. — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
“One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things. — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“Communities saturated with anonymity will either self-destruct or shift from the purely anonymous to the pseudo-anonymous, as in eBay, where you have… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
I dont comment on my relationships, so you can skip that one! My anonymity is something I treasure. Wanting to be an… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
But the web is to some degree a broth of psychopaths seeing what they can get away with in circumstances of anonymity.… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible.… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it,… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
For me, New York is about anonymity; that's the draw. It's not at all about other people in my business being nearby.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Everything I have, everything good in my life, I owe to the internet’s ability to empower people like me, people who wouldn’t… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In our own day anonymity has acquired a far more pregnant significance than is perhaps realized: it has an almost epigrammatic significance.… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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