Quotes from David Lagercrantz

That our enthusiasms and passions are an important part of our personality and if you take them away you remove something very fundamental.

N'est-ce pas ce qui est si beau dans la vie, le fait que nous ayons parfois l'occasion d'être stupéfaits ?

Thank you, dear doctor, for curing me of my delusions. But what do you have to offer me instead?

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.

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.

But most important of all, he kicked off in the humble tone he had been taught in his management courses:

Kim Peek, for example, who was the basis for Rain Man, was severely mentally handicapped and could not get dressed by himself. Yet he had memorized twelve thousand books and could give a lightning-quick answer to almost any factual question.

If she broke a surgeon's fingers or delved into the theft of some advanced AI technology, you could be sure that she had not only thought it through to the last particle, she would also have a reason. Salander was not one to forget an injustice. She retaliated and she righted wrongs. Could her involvement in this story be connected to her own background? It was by no means inconceivable.

People want to fit in and do well, and so they do indescribably stupid things.

But the world had gone mad, in his opinion. Lies and stupidity were more widespread than ever before. Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything, sometimes even penetrating the discussions within his own, otherwise sensible team.

la «singularidad tecnológica», ese acontecimiento futuro en el que la inteligencia de los ordenadores sobrepasaría la nuestra.

The doctor said that what matters is not that we believe in God; God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

Well, don't tell me that sexual freedom was Stalin's lasting contribution to mankind.

sabía demasiado bien hasta qué punto el odio y las mentiras distorsionan la realidad y destruyen a las personas,

Young people are meant to go off the rails politically, aren't they? And there are certainly far worse things one can do than dream about equality.

You either have a useful contribution to make or you don't, regardless of whether you're head of the office or the emperor of China.

The truth is of course a difficult discipline for us. Not only do we have to discover it. We've also got to handle it in the right way. It's enough to wear you down, isn't it?

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.

C'est sa grande recette de créativité. Par tolérance, il signifie que les idées différentes et les gens différents méritent d'être entendus. Plus on est ouvert aux individus qui sortent de la norme, ou simplement aux minorités, plus on est réceptif aux pensées nouvelles.

Que todos somos iguales ante la ley si pagamos lo mismo.

He might be quick to smile and adept at handing out compliments, but his smile never reached his eyes.

He was undoubtedly intelligent and well informed, but too right-wing for Grane's tastes. It was rare to find a well-educated Swede who was also a wholehearted supporter of the American Republican Party—he even expressed some sympathy for the Tea Party movement.

Faria Kazi heard them and thought of

So the very instant we create a superintelligence we lose control, is that right?" "The risk is that everything we know about the world will cease to be relevant, and it'll be the end of human existence.