Abuse Quote by Theo Jansen

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their…

— Theo Jansen

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

Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses…

— Kyra Zagorsky

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

— John Cameron Mitchell

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my…

— William Maxwell

Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've also heard…

— Amy Cuddy

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to…

— Lewis Thomas

“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

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

“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

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

“The idea that John Lasseter pitched was called “Toy Story.” It sprang from a belief, which he and Jobs shared, that products have an…

— Walter Isaacson