Quotes from John McAfee

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.

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

I do not donate to any political party.

Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

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

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.

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

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.

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 would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

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

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.

Marketing is the obverse of programming.

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

Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.

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

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

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

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

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.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

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.

I don't do things I can't win.