I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.
— John McAfee
I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'
My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
I don't know much about technology anymore.
People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?
Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.
I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.
Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.
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.
I do not donate to any political party.
I simply refuse to play by the rules.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
Donald Trump is proud of the fact that he's never written an e-mail.
Hillary Clinton was asked if she wiped the disc she was using for her email; she said, 'Do you mean with a damp cloth?' This, to me, is frightening.
I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
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 don't need friends.
I gravitate to the world's outcasts.
The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.
We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.
History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.
Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.
I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
My relationship has never been good with the government.
When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy.
The government generally is just too top-heavy.
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.
There are no secrets.
The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.
I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.
I'm a paranoid person. I really am.
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.
We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
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.
Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
Belize is not ready for self-government.
I am just a thorn in everybody's side.
I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.
I will not stop my blog.
Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.
Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.
It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.
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.
