Bad day Quote by James Gleick

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time,…

— James Gleick

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

— Matt Ridley

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

“biological corollary to a meme is, of course, a gene, a unit of heredity transmitted from an organism to its offspring.”

— David DiSalvo

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for…

— Richard Dawkins

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection,…

— 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

“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

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Yuval Noah Harari