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61 " one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas. "
― David Lagercrantz , The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
62 " Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that. "
― David Lagercrantz , The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)
63 " technological singularity,” the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own. "
64 " 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. "
65 " Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections. "
66 " When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget the world around her. "
67 " Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence. "
68 " is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness. "
69 " Hilda argued that our fate is more likely determined by what she called our “unique environment”—the one we do not share with anyone, not even our siblings. It is the environment we seek out and create for ourselves, for example, when we find something which delights and fascinates us and drives us in a certain direction. "
70 " Heredity and environment interact constantly, Hilda wrote. We seek out occurrences and activities which stimulate our genes and make them flourish, and we avoid things which frighten us or make us uncomfortable. "
71 " hereditary factors in conjunction with our unique environment are the primary factors in shaping our personalities. "
72 " Well, don’t tell me that sexual freedom was Stalin’s lasting contribution to mankind. "
― David Lagercrantz , Fall of Man in Wilmslow
73 " 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. "
74 " 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? "
75 " Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking. "
76 " What is there left once you have lost your manliness? "
77 " Given his age, Jan Bublanski was afraid of many things. But perhaps he feared the absence of doubt most of all. He was a man of faith who was uncomfortable in the face of convictions too strongly held or over-simplified explanations. He was forever producing counter-arguments and contrary hypotheses. Nothing was so certain that it could not be challenged one more time. "
78 " She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven. "
79 " I’m lying. He tasted the words. If it’s true that I’m lying then I’m telling the truth…The "
80 " Salander was up at 5:00 the next morning and hacked into the NSF Major Research Instrumentation supercomputer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology—she needed all the mathematical skills she could muster. "