Top 60 John McAfee Quotes

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

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.

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

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they’re with their wives and husbands.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

I’ve been called ‘paranoid,’ ‘schizophrenic,’ ‘the wild child of Silicon Valley.’

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

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

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?

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

We are at war – undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed – but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.

Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

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

I don’t know much about technology anymore.

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.

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.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

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

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.

There’s not a single flashlight app that’s not spying on you right now.

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

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

I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.

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

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

I have a huge underground following on the web.

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.

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.

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories… Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

I do not donate to any political party.

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.

We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

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.

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.

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I’m dumping all my smart phones.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

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 don’t do things I can’t win.

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

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.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

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

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

I’m an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.

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

Hillary Clinton was asked if she wiped the disc she was using for her email; she said, ‘Do you mean with a damp cloth?’ This, to me, is frightening.

Jealousy, greed, fear. We’re all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn’t matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You’d jump in to save him.

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

I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where – RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.

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

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.

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

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.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver’s door of a car.

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

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

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