Talk:John McAfee

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• I prefer people with simple vices and harmless virtues.
  • Attributed to McAfee on Homebase BBS 1990. Homebase was McAfee’s private BBS
• Righteous motives will lead to a stupid act.
  • Homebase BBS
• The world was here first, it doesn’t owe you a thing.
  • Homebase BBS
• Great lies are often true.
  • Homebase BBS
• We admire ourselves in proportion to our disdain of others.
  • Homebase BBS
• There’s no time for a person’s real life.
  • Homebase BBS
• Imagination weakens the eyes
  • Homebase BBS
• Trivialities have become our necessities
  • Homebase BBS
• Fear is a certain shield against temptation.
  • Homebase BBS
• An intelligent man who doesn’t think has no advantage over a fool.
  • Homebase BBS
• Pure and simple truths are uncommon.
  • Homebase BBS.
• It’s easy to give advice if you don’t have to pay the consequences.
  • Homebase BBS.
• If you think money is valueless, ask someone for a loan.
  • Homebase BBS
• Self deception is a hypnotic pleasure.
  • Homebase BBS.
• He looks too old to know everything.
  • Homebase BBS

Proposed McAfee Quotes moved from Wikiquote:Requested entries

Note: these are all proposed to be from "Into the Heart of Truth":

• History is sympathetic to its authors.
• If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.
• It’s easy to give advice if you don’t have to pay the consequences.
• If the majority holds something of value, you can be certain it has none.
• Opinions need a willing ear.
• Imagination weakens the eyes.
• Popular works are unreadable, great works are unread.
• A good example is more irritating than a bad one.
• Trivialities have become our necessities.
• I prefer people with simple vices, and harmless virtues.
• There’s no time for a person’s real life.
• Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.
• Everyone hopes for old age. No-one wants to be old.
• Hope is paltry food for living.
• If you have the winning cards, why cheat?
• Pure and simple truths are uncommon.
• An intelligent man who doesn’t think has no advantage over a fool.
• If you think money is valueless, ask someone for a loan.
• Righteous motives will lead to a stupid act.
• Appearances overcome substance.
• The world was here first. It doesn’t owe you a thing.
• Great lies are often true
• History is full of extraordinary events, some of which may actually have happened.
• We admire ourselves in proportion to our disdain of others.
• Fear is a certain shield against temptation.
• If you want to infuriate someone, forgive them.
• Self portraits are the only portraits painted with passion.
• He is too old to know everything.
• Self deception is a hypnotic pleasure.
• Selfishness isn’t doing what you want, but demanding that others do what you want.
• Temptation is irresistible.
  • -- This last one is actually a corruption of Oscar Wilde's "I can resist everything but temptation."