Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by John McAfee - Page 2

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.

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

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

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.

I have a huge underground following on the web.

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.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

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

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There's an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can't really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.

There are no secrets.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I don't need friends.

I do not donate to any political party.

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

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

I don't know much about technology anymore.

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.

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

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

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

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

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

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.

I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.

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

Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.

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

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

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

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.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

I don't do things I can't win.

These 'free' applications ask for permission to read your emails, your text messages, listen to your phone calls, record video from your phone. Why else would someone spend millions developing an application which they then give away? Kind-hearted, maybe? Get real.

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

I gravitate to the world's outcasts.

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.

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

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

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

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

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

I'm a paranoid person. I really am.

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

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.

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.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

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

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.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

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.

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

History is sympathetic to its authors.

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

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