Going Viral Quotes

#1. It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.

Jenny Lawson

#2. Forget about 'Going Viral' and 'Go Give Value'.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#3. Going viral isn't random, magic, or luck. It's a science.

Jonah Berger

#4. Start a rumor about
peace taking over,
love being the new black,
and compassion going viral.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#5. There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

Jeffrey Kluger

#6. Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.

Alfred Hershey

#7. It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Derek Thompson

#8. Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.

Peter Guber

#9. The ice bucket challenge went viral in 2014, partly because it was so much fun to watch videos of celebrities or friends dumping ice water on their heads. Videos of people in the challenge have been watched more than 10 billion times on Facebook - more than once per person on the planet.

Nicholas Kristof

#10. What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.

Luc Montagnier

#11. This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

Derek Thompson

#12. If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

George Pendle

#13. When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

Donnell Rawlings

#14. I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact - the more influence you had, the more impact you could create ... The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

Emerson Spartz

#15. The more awesome you are, the more emotion you create, the more viral it is.

Emerson Spartz

#16. Let's put it like this... Deeper Level is a place in which I can put in everything exploits and then to share everything.... to make everything viral.

Deyth Banger

#17. Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

Floyd Skloot

#18. Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

Ann Voskamp

#19. I'm convinced that empathy is more powerful than hate and that our lives should be dedicated to making it go viral.

Zak Ebrahim

#20. When prayer goes viral, people are not excited about "it" (prayer) but are infectious about "Him

Daniel Henderson

#21. Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century.

Gavin John Adams

#22. Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

Brad Katsuyama

#23. I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.

Michelle Jenneke

#24. If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

Michael Birch

#25. There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people's living rooms across the country.

Alex Gibney

#26. Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market.

Peter Thiel

#27. Content Is King, Distribution is Queen

Andrea Febbraio

#28. A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.

Annalee Newitz

#29. The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.

Tina Brown

#30. Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don't have feelings.

Martin McConnell

#31. Contagious content is like that - so inherently viral that it spreads regardless of who is doing the talking.

Jonah Berger

#32. The Turkish quarter oozed, impregnated with malicious mockery, a viral scorn.

Joseph D. Stec

#33. Never underestimate a viral trend on the Internet

Pedro Hugo Garcia Pelaez

#34. It's very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that's hard.

Michelle Phan

#35. I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern ... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

Simon Cowell

#36. In our line of work the more humiliated a person is, the more viral the story tends to go. Shame can factor large in the life of a journalist - the personal avoidance of it and the professional bestowing of it onto others.

Jon Ronson

#37. The average business page gets between 100 and 250 likes. This may not sound like a lot, but even at that level, if some posts go viral, your reach may expand to thousands. What matters most is that you get in the game.

Brian Basilico

#38. Being web video 'experts'/'pioneers,' whatever you may want to call us, has us always thinking about content that is outside the box, inherently viral in itself and good for web video audiences, as you can't just put out a good piece of content and expect it to be seen.

Benny Fine

#39. By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.

Justin Cronin

#40. Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, cut-glass cheekbones and glazed blue eyes, he's right on the border between dreamboat and spooky freak.

David Edelstein

#41. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

T.K. Naliaka

#42. Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.

Richard Dawkins

#43. Attacks characterised by little more than malaise are likely to be regarded as mild viral illnesses. Attacks characterised by alteration of affect and consciousness - mild drowsiness or depression - may be taken for purely emotional reactions. Both

Oliver Sacks

#44. Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

Barbara Walters