People naturally want to retweet and engage on super funny videos and memes. — Jake Paul Copy Share Image
Remember back in the day when Internet memes were funny? I miss those days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. — Susan Blackmore 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
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
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
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
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
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
We're [also] trying to talk to a generation who grew up on the Internet. They're digital natives, and, essentially, they speak through… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not… — Susan Blackmore 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
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
[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
A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow… — Wayne Dyer 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
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
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
The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Words exist. What are they made of? Air under pressure? Ink? Some instances of the word "cat" are made of ink, and… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
The only thing I get more than Anthony Fantano hate is Anthony Fantano memes. — Anthony Fantano 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
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
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