Quotes from John McAfee

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

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.

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

I am just a thorn in everybody's side.

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

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.

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.

All of life is relationship. We relate to people, things, and ideas, and our actions reflect the tone and substance of each relationship. How we relate to money, to the ideal of love, to nature, to our concept of death, and to our spouse reveals, in the moment, the truth of ourselves.

You cannot become what you already are.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

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.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

True love has no object. It is a state of being.

Living with one woman is horrific.