Capacity Quote by Daniel Dennett

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a…

— Daniel Dennett

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than…

— Richard Dawkins

A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that…

— Kalle Lasn

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's…

— Susan Blackmore

“If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of…

— Susan J. Blackmore

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

— M.I.A

“But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the…

— Daniel C. Dennett

Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people that care…

— Anthony Fantano

“The computers in which memes live are human brains.”

— Richard Dawkins

Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe…

— Susan Blackmore

“Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the…

— Richard Dawkins

“replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari