People naturally want to retweet and engage on super funny videos and memes. — Jake Paul Copy Share Image
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The only thing I get more than Anthony Fantano hate is Anthony Fantano memes. — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious. — Jaboukie Young-White Copy Share Image
It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
“Every naskar material that exists outside the books, exists only to redirect you to the canon - the gifs, the voice recordings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer,… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
One of my favorite memes is one with Steve Carell about workers, and another one I really like is from 'Here Comes… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“There are many fake memes floating about the internet, one of them misquotes me saying - 'spare the toilet, spoil the floor.'… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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![“[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own…” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/924/quentin-s-crisp-4149_feels_antinatalism-seems-to-oppose-the-idea-of_866998.jpg)
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