Quotes About Memes

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

In developed countries, we have less to fear from infectious parasites, but much more to fear from infectious memes. So, instead of opening our bodies to ambient germs, we open our minds to ambient culture, to determine if we can stay sane throughout the onslaught.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

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 memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

Hey 2020 — What the heck are murder hornets? And how much toilet paper do I need to buy?

Even if, as seems likely, Islamic State is defeated in Iraq and Syria, its network in cyberspace and in the West will live on, a toxic milieu where the memes of dawa can breed, converting one loser after another to the cause of murderous martyrdom.

I can choose the subroutine and perform sadness. How is that different from what you are doing, except that you use the word feelings and I use the word feelings , out of deference for your cultural memes which say: there is all the difference in the world. I erase the word even as I say it, obliterate it at the same time that I initiate it, because I must use some word yet this one offends you. I delete it, yet it remains.

Rhinoceros — battle unicorn Raccoon — trash panda Porcupine — stab rabbit Peacock — disco chicken Skunk — fart squirrel Zebra — tiger pony Giraffe — spotted stretch camel Bat — leather bird Reindeer — Christmas llama

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 special case) computer viruses. In a way, these are the most interesting—the memes that thrive to their hosts' detriment, such as the idea that suicide bombers will find their reward in heaven.

We'll shape them through their memes," he said. "We'll kill off the bad memes, and help spread the ones we want to succeed.

Cuanto más apunta la curva del flujo de información hacia una mayor conectividad, más rápido evolucionan los memes y más se expanden.

For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing - what do you call them - memes?

Dreams aren't real? I say they walk among us, whispering in our ears all their sweet promises and threats, carried in our heads, mind-words, maggots eating at our dead souls. Dreams, memes, gods and monsters, creatures of the id. If they aren't real then what the hell am I?

One of my favourites on Instagram is @dublin_zoetrope. He does these musical theatre/Meryl Streep/Glenn Close memes that are truly hysterical. He'll take a regular photo of them and create an entire storyline, and it makes me cackle out loud.

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? In my photos on my phone, I made an album called "calm." I have photos and videos of my animals, funny pictures, memes, inspiring quotes, articles about neurology, gratitude lists, all sorts of things that make me smile and reconnect to my source. It's like my own personal digital Zen museum.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

Cultural traits, however, are a more general category than memes, because they also include quantitative (smoothly-varying) characteristics that cannot be easily represented as discrete alternatives: for example, the inclination to trust strangers. (More on that below.)

People naturally want to retweet and engage on super funny videos and memes.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

Simple ideas often make the strongest memes.

which I draw is European. Even the form in which I write is European. Arguably, one of the most familiar memes of science fiction is that of going to foreign countries and colonizing the natives, and as I've said elsewhere, for many of us, that's not a thrilling adventure story; it's non-fiction, and we are on the wrong side of the strange-looking ship that appears out of nowhere.

Pyotr said that all children were God's children, even those whose minds had been overwritten by alien memes. "What about the Jackaroo and the !Cha?" Tony said. "Those also." "And the Elder Cultures?" "Of course. The universe and everything in it is Her Kingdom.