John McAfee Quotes & Sayings

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet. — John McAfee

Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that. — John McAfee

Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too. — John McAfee

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old. — John McAfee

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress. — John McAfee

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality. — John McAfee

There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive. — John McAfee

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian. — John McAfee

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed. — John McAfee

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas. — John McAfee

Every corporation worth its salt is throwing money at Deep Web research, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain power of an enormous magnitude. — John McAfee

People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling? — John McAfee

I don't need friends. — John McAfee

When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy. — John McAfee

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years. — John McAfee

When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to. — John McAfee

I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems. — John McAfee

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.' — John McAfee

Marketing is the obverse of programming. — John McAfee

We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform. — John McAfee

My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations. — John McAfee

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture. — John McAfee

Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow. — John McAfee

Living with one woman is horrific. — John McAfee

You cannot become what you already are. — John McAfee

If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like. — John McAfee

I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea. — John McAfee

Security is a human problem. — John McAfee

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger. — John McAfee

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret. — John McAfee

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now. — John McAfee

When we do not understand something, a common reaction is to fear it. In government, this is the usual, and encouraged, reaction. The reaction to the gig economy has been no different, and this growing fear has unfortunately turned into a legislative bloodbath. — John McAfee

The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change. — John McAfee

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target. — John McAfee

I don't know much about technology anymore. — John McAfee

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics. — John McAfee

I gravitate to the world's outcasts. — John McAfee

I simply refuse to play by the rules. — John McAfee

I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate. — John McAfee

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest. — John McAfee

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. — John McAfee

I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure. — John McAfee

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense. — John McAfee

Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No. — John McAfee

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it. — John McAfee

A good example is more irritating than a bad one. — John McAfee

I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant. — John McAfee

Donald Trump is proud of the fact that he's never written an e-mail. — John McAfee

The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters. — John McAfee

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years. — John McAfee

I will not stop my blog. — John McAfee

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data. — John McAfee

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines. — John McAfee

I do not donate to any political party. — John McAfee

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more. — John McAfee

True love has no object. It is a state of being. — John McAfee

I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well. — John McAfee

Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics ... now, this is something unique. — John McAfee

The government generally is just too top-heavy. — John McAfee

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network. — John McAfee

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands. — John McAfee

My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice. — John McAfee

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.' — John McAfee

Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar. — John McAfee

Belize is not ready for self-government. — John McAfee

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely. — John McAfee

In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses. — John McAfee

There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life. — John McAfee

We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane. — John McAfee

If you have the winning cards, why cheat? — John McAfee

Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say. — John McAfee

I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation. — John McAfee

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out. — John McAfee

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do. — John McAfee

The Deep Web contains shockingly valuable information. Can you imagine how cancer research would blossom if every researcher had instant access to every research paper done by every single university and research lab in the world? — John McAfee

There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize. — John McAfee

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want. — John McAfee

I don't do things I can't win. — John McAfee

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore. — John McAfee

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions — John McAfee

More than one of my girlfriends tried to kill me a few times. — John McAfee

There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact. — John McAfee

Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation. — John McAfee

Let me tell you what the truth is ... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you. — John McAfee

There are no secrets. — John McAfee

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target. — John McAfee

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to. — John McAfee

I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes. — John McAfee

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left. — John McAfee

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones. — John McAfee

I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar. — John McAfee

History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money. — John McAfee

Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind. — John McAfee

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [ ... ]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder. — John McAfee

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way. — John McAfee

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace. — John McAfee

Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over. — John McAfee

Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade — John McAfee

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story. — John McAfee

I am just a thorn in everybody's side. — John McAfee