Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.

I don't need friends.

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.

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

I gravitate to the world's outcasts.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

Every corporation worth its salt is throwing money at Deep Web research, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain power of an enormous magnitude.

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

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.

Living with one woman is horrific.

I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

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.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

I do not donate to any political party.

I will not stop my blog.

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

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.

Belize is not ready for self-government.

Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

I am just a thorn in everybody's side.

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

I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

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

There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive.

I simply refuse to play by the rules.

We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

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

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

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.

There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

Marketing is the obverse of programming.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

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

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.

There are no secrets.

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

My relationship has never been good with the government.

History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.

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