John McAfee
programmer, engineer, businessperson, computer scientist, politician
Read on Wikipedia1945 – 2021
All Quotes by John McAfee
“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.”
“The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.”
“Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“A good example is more irritating than a bad one.”
“If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.”
“Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.”
“History is sympathetic to its authors.”
“If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.”
“Opinions need a willing ear.”
“If you have the winning cards, why cheat?”
“Hope is paltry food for living.”
“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.”
“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 am not implying that our entire Government is corrupt. I am saying that it is corrupt to the point that no-one is untouched by it.”
“An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.”
“Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.”
“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.”
“Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.”
“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.'”
“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.”