Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

Now that you have the Xerox machine, you can't keep many secrets.

The glare of publicity on my private life threatens to undermine the effectiveness of the division of enforcement and of the Commission.

Now, boys, let me tell you something. Sometimes you may see me coming out of a room in the White House with a woman. You just remember that it is none of your business.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

In 'The Transparent Society,' I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have an intrinsic need for some privacy.

I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

When I'm on a plane, people know where I'm going before I even know where I'm going. People know where you had lunch yesterday, or who you had lunch with. So, trying to avoid sharing everything with everyone is my way of keeping something private in my life.