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Meme Quotes

Behind every meme there’s a guy without a social life trying to make you smile Picture Quote #1

I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea Picture Quote #1

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture Picture Quote #1

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry Picture Quote #1

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic Picture Quote #1

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts Picture Quote #1

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All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well Picture Quote #1

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 just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell Picture Quote #1

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version Picture Quote #1

It’s obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one’s art Picture Quote #1

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, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene Picture Quote #1

I truly love ‘Gangnam Style.’ I guess it’s a meme. I feel like it’s one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely Picture Quote #1

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In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of ‘The Selfish Gene,’ I did actually use the metaphor of a ‘virus.’ So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that Picture Quote #1

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Behind every meme there’s a guy without a social life trying to make you smile (Meme Quotes) I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea (Meme Quotes) God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture (Meme Quotes) The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry (Meme Quotes) Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that’s going on is not memetic (Meme Quotes) Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts (Meme Quotes) All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don’t imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well (Meme Quotes) 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 just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell (Meme Quotes) An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version (Meme Quotes) It’s obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one’s art. (Meme Quotes) 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, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene. (Meme Quotes) I truly love ‘Gangnam Style.’ I guess it’s a meme. I feel like it’s one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely. (Meme Quotes) In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of ‘The Selfish Gene,’ I did actually use the metaphor of a ‘virus.’ So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that. (Meme Quotes)