Quotes from David Lagercrantz

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time,

Gut feeling is often a better tool than all the psychological theories in the world.

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is that what happened here?

Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they've sold out, and the more you're acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it's like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that's what they imagine.

if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and – who knows – perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

Many people feel they are missing someone

The dignity of a society is defined by the way it looks after its weakest members.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.

Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.

the financial market is not something that exists like you or I, Karin, or this bottle of water on the table. The moment we stop believing in it, it ceases to exist.

the one who hates men who…" "…hate women.

He understood immediately, and asked, 'What about the fire the dragon is breathing?' I said it was the same fire that burns inside everyone who is being trampled on. The same fire that can turn us into ashes and waste, but which sometimes, if some old fool like Holger spots us, plays chess with us and talks to us and just takes an interest, can become something totally different: a force which allows us to strike back.

If God is indeed omnipotent, is he then capable of creating something more intelligent than himself?

el mal no desaparece, tan sólo se transforma adoptando otras formas de vida.

The pace of growth goes on increasing and in the end it escapes our control.

Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.

It strengthened his long-held conviction that one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.

This isn't a negotiation, it's not even a conversation. I'm just setting out the terms, that's all.

one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.

Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that.

technological singularity," the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own.

She suspected that she was quite like Helena Kraft in that she was capable and ambitious and wanted to get a pat on the back from her superiors. That was not necessarily always a good thing though. With that tendency, if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and — who knows, perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

Everything has its time

Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections.