92 Quotes by David Lagercrantz

It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.

Life often looks its best from a distance.

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

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?

Wait, Ed. Did you say she?” “You better believe it. Our hacker’s a she!

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.

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.

It wasn’t just escapism, he persuaded himself. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

These days you can’t do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints.