Richard Adams Quotes

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Never Google yourself. Seriously, don't!

I don't like showing my privacy online.

I think a lot of stuff like people's emails getting hacked or that an email you sent is stored on a hard drive somewhere, that kind of stuff worries me a little bit. It's a weird thought that someone else could get into my information that easily. That stuff's pretty scary.

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

Get them to sing your song, and then they will know who you are.

Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

I got rid of my Instagram and had a flip phone for two years. I only started one after a friend told me someone was impersonating me.

I will think twice in the future about what I post. Probably three times.

I worry about revealing too much of my life on my Instagram posts.

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

Names govern the world.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

You have to name it to claim it

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

You can be known as Val or Babycakes.” His gaze darkened. “My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.” She shrugged. “Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way.

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.