John McAfee

Antivirus creator, fugitive, conspiracy

Contemporary weird famous 139 sayings

Sayings by John McAfee

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

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History is sympathetic to its authors.

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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.

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You cannot become what you already are.

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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.'

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

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My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.

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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.

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

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

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If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

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

1992 — Comment at Computer Virus Conference
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Opinions need a willing ear.

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Living with one woman is horrific.

2013 — Interview with Allan Brettman, oregonlive.com
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If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

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The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

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Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.

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A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

1991 — John McAfee's presentation in Munich
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There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.

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