There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
Bill GatesI’m nobody, who are you?
Emily DickinsonI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia WoolfFor ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.
J. K. RowlingIn heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard ShawMost people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.
Robert KiyosakiI’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.
Dwayne JohnsonSuperman don’t need no seat belt.
Muhammad AliThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia WoolfThere are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas SowellI wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
Kurt CobainIf I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.
Stephen HawkingThe Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.
Frank OceanIndeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia WoolfNobody knows me.
George BestI want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman.
Dan QuayleI like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
Frank OceanThe challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
Matthew McConaugheyWhen 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.
Mark ZuckerbergI just miss – I miss being anonymous.
Barack Obama