Famous Quotes & Sayings

Unfortunately, child predators know this and use the anonymity of the Internet. The findings were a real wakeup call for us, and they should be for parents, too.

Richard Smith

When you go to a Web site they will not only know your cookie, but also your e-mail address. Bottom line, you lose anonymity when you go to a Web site.

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.

With the change in anonymity rules coming we saw a sharp fall in numbers and a change in the profile of applicants, perhaps reflecting the attitudes of different groups to anonymity.

While President Clinton wants to do anything he can to help his wife win re-election, the story is simply not true. The anonymous sources in this story are anonymous because they were wrong.

Todd Christensen

Who would want to play the position these days? In this era of self-promotion and TV highlight reels, the better a corner plays, the more anonymous he becomes. What's his reward for doing his job well? No one throws to his side.

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?

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.

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,

Guy Berryman

I think I've kind of got the best position. I get all the benefits of being in one of the biggest bands in the world and have a certain anonymity as well. So I'm perfectly happy with the situation.

We have tried very hard to be out in the community and do more public education. Anonymous is exactly what it means.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

Mark Zuckerberg

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.

We received an anonymous email, we immediately looked into it, and when we saw some irregularities. We immediately contacted the Honolulu Police Department.

Aaron Peirsol

We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.