Neal Stephenson Believe Quotations

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.

It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...