John McAfee Quotes
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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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I simply refuse to play by the rules.
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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.
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The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
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Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.
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My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
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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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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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The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.
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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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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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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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Hope is paltry food for living.
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An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.
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There are no secrets.
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It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
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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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Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
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I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.
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I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
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Software production is unlike any other production that preceded it. No raw materials are required, no time is required, and no effort is required. You can make a million copies of a piece of software instantaneously for free. It's a totally new paradigm of production.
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People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?
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I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.
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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.