John McAfee Quotations

There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.

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.

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

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

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

Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.

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.

If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.

Opinions need a willing ear.

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.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

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.

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

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

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

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.

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

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.

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.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

More than one of my girlfriends tried to kill me a few times.

Living with one woman is horrific.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

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