John McAfee

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

“Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.”

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

“I am just a thorn in everybody's side.”

“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.”

“We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.”

“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.”

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

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

“I simply refuse to play by the rules.”

“I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.”

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

“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 will not stop my blog.”

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

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

“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.”

“When we do not understand something, a common reaction is to fear it. In government, this is the usual, and encouraged, reaction. The reaction to the gig economy has been no different, and this growing fear has unfortunately turned into a legislative bloodbath.”

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

“I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.”