Quotes About Meme

A meme is simply a unit of memorable cultural information. It can be as small as a tune or a metaphor, as big as a philosophy or religious concept. Hell is a meme; so are the Pythagorean theorem, A Hard Day's Night, the wheel, Hamlet, pragmatism, harmony, "Where's the beef?," and of course the notion of the meme itself.

Spit me out, says the meme, and you will tempt a fate worse than death.317

The modern growth of Islam is the coalescence of a superorganism drawn together by the magnetic attraction of a meme. But this meme has an advantage: The social body it is trying to pull together has existed as a unified social beast in the past. The old reflexes of solidarity are still there, waiting to be aroused. The meme of the new Islam is not laboring to generate a small and fragile embryo. It is simply attempting to awaken a sleeping giant. VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA

I feel in today's time, you are truly successful if a meme is based on you.

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.

The idea that memes exist is a meme meme.

Memes, like genes, are selected against the background of other memes in the meme pool. The result is that gangs of mutually compatible memes – coadapted meme complexes or memeplexes – are found cohabiting in individual brains. This is not because selection has chosen them as a group, but because each separate member of the group tends to be favoured when its environment happens to be dominated by the others.

Some people only recognize me for that - ain't you the meme guy?

I run a meme type of account on Twitter; I know what my audience is looking for.

We're not alt-right, and we're not old-school, National-Review-boring Right - we're aggressive. We're in a meme world - we're in a world where you have to be catchy, punchy.

I have a great sense of humor, I mean even when my meme came out I reposted it. I didn't care. I was laughing, too!

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

Well, don't just stand there, she says. Give us a love scene worthy of the ages, or at least a viral meme.

Cat: a-cute-puncturist.

I'm doing my part to stay healthy by eating more hole foods.

I'll have a triple sparkle macchiato with extra glitter.

Grammar makes the difference between feeling you're nuts and feeling your nuts.

I don't always do yoga — but when I do, it's because I'm trying to reach a new roll of toilet paper while sitting on the toilet.

Satan called. He wants his weather back.

I'm sexy and I mow it.

Has 'jump the shark' jumped the shark?" ("Granted, Jump the Shark is a brilliant cultural concept.… But now the damn thing is everywhere.") Like any good meme, it spawned mutations. The "jumping the shark" entry in Wikipedia advised in 2009, "See also: jumping the couch; nuking the fridge.

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it might be.

En las doctrinas de la evolución cultural, un meme es un -replicador- y un propagador: una idea, una moda, una cadena de mensajes o una teoría de la conspiración. En un mal día, un meme es un virus.

It's weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It's like you become a meme, and you're not a person anymore, and people don't mind stealing your life.