Essentials Quote by Vannevar Bush

We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to…

— Hans H Wellisch

Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements.

— Gilles Deleuze

“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

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 object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

— Francis Galton

It is well documented that the same text, indexed by several indexers, will result in as many slightly or even substantially different indexes, and…

— Hans H Wellisch

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

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

— Larry Wall

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

— John Burnham Schwartz

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at…

— Joshua Foer

Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“Identifying leader category “affinities”: Affinity means that when one product is purchased, then another is often purchased as well. This analysis helps determine the…

— Herb Sorensen