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 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."