Computers Quote by James Gleick

“Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the dangers of…

— Richard Brodie

“The weaponized meme, when properly introduced and reinforced, will parasitically weave its way throughout the labyrinth of the mind and attach itself to the…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in…

— Richard Dawkins

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

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and…

— Terence McKenna

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

The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or…

— Tim Minchin

“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

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

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

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