Quotes About Meme

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

An 'idea-meme' might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

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

Pop music catches on like a meme. It just takes a little bit of tinder, and it can become a phenomenon. You have to break through that wall a little bit. Why it happens, I don't really know.

Rather, cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.

It occurred to me that by naming the film itself 'Dear White People,' I could tap into the burgeoning meme culture as well as make a meta-commentary about the controversies within the film.

It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.

The shadow side of this exposure is that, at least in the West, any cultural meme that gets seized by the collective consciousness runs the risk of trivialization, thus diluting its power.

This is one of the things I find so insufferable about the liberal backlash against critics of Islam—especially the pernicious meme "Islamophobia," by which anyone who thinks Islam merits special concern at this moment in history is branded a bigot.

My leg was pulled on social media with memes and jokes due to my 'sanskaari' image.

There seems to be no stream of hot debate, discussion and meme on any topic/theme in online & offline world unless & until the hidden news team wants people to talk about the subject of own liking and often done to divert the attention of the population from main problem to superfluous issues

I am Meme Queen and Emoji Dean, do not challenge me.

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.

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.

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 not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

We're not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos, and Instagram is for photos. You wouldn't put a filter on a meme; you'd put a filter on top of a photo that came from your camera.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term 'meme' for a unit of cultural imitation.

Leeroy Jenkins!

Very often, when leaders repeat things over and over, they are preparing you for when that meme actually emerges in reality.

cultural change occurs whenever a new meme is introduced and catches on. It might be romanticism or double-entry book-keeping, chaos theory or Pokemon. So where in the world do new memes come from? sometimes they spring full-blown from the brains of artists or scientists, advertising copywriters or teenagers. often a process of mutation is involved in the creation of a new meme, in much the same way that mutations in natural environment can lead to useful new genetic traits.

Baby Yoda is universally cute, hands down.