About Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

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

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

“Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment … The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme. In cultural…

— James Gleick

The word is now a virus.

— William S. Burroughs

“Memes can replicate with impressive virulence while leaving swaths of collateral damage—patent medicines and psychic surgery, astrology and satanism, racist myths, superstitions, and (a…

— James Gleick

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

— David DiSalvo

I realized virality is really based on the person. When you're a viral type of person, you're gonna always go viral.

— Ice Spice

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because…

— William S. Burroughs

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

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