John McAfee Quotes
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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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People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?
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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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We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
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I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'
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I am just a thorn in everybody's side.
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Hope is paltry food for living.
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Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
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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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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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I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.
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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 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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Living with one woman is horrific.
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Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.
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I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
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I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
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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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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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I gravitate to the world's outcasts.
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History is sympathetic to its authors.
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I don't do things I can't win.
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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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I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.