Quotes from John McAfee

There are no secrets.

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'm a paranoid person. I really am.

Security is a human problem.

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.

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 will not stop my blog.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

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

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.

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

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.

A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

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

History is sympathetic to its authors.

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.

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

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

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

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

The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.

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?

I have a huge underground following on the web.

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.