Cost Quote by Eric Schmidt

Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a…

— Sean Penn

Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the…

— Susan Fiske

We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P.…

— Kevin Young

“Communities saturated with anonymity will either self-destruct or shift from the purely anonymous to the pseudo-anonymous, as in eBay, where you have a traceable…

— Kevin Kelly

“Privacy is not something that can be counted, divided, or “traded.” It is not a substance or collection of data points. It’s just a…

— Vaidhyanathan Siva

The Internet is a seemingly unreal environment where we think we are anonymous. It's a potentially provocative place. As a result, we may not…

— Drew Pinsky

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.

— Julie Bowen

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…

— John Scalzi

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

— Dolly Wells

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

— Alissa Quart

To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies…

— Wil Wheaton

You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

— Dan Geer