Top 100 John McAfee Quotes
#1. I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.
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#2. To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
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#3. I have a huge underground following on the web.
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#4. Belize is not ready for self-government.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.
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#7. America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.
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#8. 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.
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#9. You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#13. Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.
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#14. 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.
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#15. A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
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#16. It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
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#18. Marketing is the obverse of programming.
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#19. I do not donate to any political party.
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#20. 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.
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#21. If you have the winning cards, why cheat?
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#22. I am just a thorn in everybody's side.
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#23. The government generally is just too top-heavy.
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#24. Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.
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#25. The world chooses to think what the world thinks.
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#26. Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
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#29. I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.
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#30. 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?
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#31. A good example is more irritating than a bad one.
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#32. My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
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#33. 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.
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#34. If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.
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#35. I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. My relationship has never been good with the government.
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#41. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
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#46. I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'
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#47. 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.
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#48. The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.
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#49. I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.
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#50. 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.
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#51. I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
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#52. If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.
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#53. As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
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#54. 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.
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#55. When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.
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#56. 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.
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#57. True love has no object. It is a state of being.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
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#62. History is sympathetic to its authors.
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#63. More than one of my girlfriends tried to kill me a few times.
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#64. I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.
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#65. Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.
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#66. Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
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#67. Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.
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#68. 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.
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#69. Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
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#70. Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
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#71. There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact.
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#72. Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
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#73. I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.
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#74. My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
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#76. 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.
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#77. You cannot become what you already are.
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#78. The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.
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#81. 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.
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#82. We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.
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#83. We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.
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#86. We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
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#87. I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.
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#88. 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.
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#89. Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
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#90. Ignorance and confidence are constant companions
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#91. Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.
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#92. A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
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#93. 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.
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#95. There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.
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#96. The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
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#97. 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.
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#98. The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.
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#99. I don't know much about technology anymore.
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#100. History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.
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