Quotes About Meme

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.

I don't think that memes what you think it memes.

Dear YouTube: I think it's pretty safe to assume that we all want to 'Skip This Ad.'

I love Pinterest. It's electronic hoarding without the clutter.

If it's Wednesday but it's not raining, does that make it Dry Hump Day?

Can we uninstall 2020 and re-install it? This version has a virus.

Internet meme, c. 2014

So if the Corona Virus isn't about beer, why do I keep hearing about cases of it?

Am I the only one who ate my two weeks of quarantine snacks all on the first day?

A gathering of covidiots is known as a covfefe.

The Quarantini — just add vitamin C to a martini and it's a germ killer and an immunity booster in one!

Now that I've lived through an actual plague, I see why Renaissance paintings are full of naked fat people laying on couches.

9-1-1, what is your emergency? Hello, there are eleven people hanging out together and one of them has the sniffles.

Due to the supply shortage of disinfectants and cleaning supplies, dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.

I am a homebody, but dang! — I did like going one or two places.

No, the founders of our culture didn't just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it, and the whip they used was this meme: Growing all your own food is the best way to live. Nothing less could imaginably have done this amazing trick.

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

The only thing that can blow away the Michael Jordan sad face meme, is the Floyd Mayweather knockout meme. If Floyd Mayweather got knocked out - knocked out to the point where he is ice cold on the ground - I think that's the one meme that can just overwhelm the whole Jordan issue.

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.

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.

When memory appeared, the effect was dramatic. A multicelled creature could quickly store experience in a nervous system's circuitry. This opened the way for a swift reprogrammer zoologist Richard Dawkins calls the meme*—a habit, a technique, a twist of feeling, a sense of things, which easily flips from brain to brain.

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.

The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.

A meme a day keeps the planes away.