Bruce Sterling Quotes

I don't have a personal Facebook or Twitter account.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

People only see you in blogs, and they think they know everything about your life.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

Despite my high profile on social media, I'm a private person.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

I didn't necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call me Emrata; they don't call me Emily. That's my brand, my identity.

Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

My real name is actually Ivana.

I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life.

I'm only on Instagram, and it's under a ridiculous name, and I'm friends with, like, five people, all of whom I've had dinner with.