Top 46 Meme Quotes
#1. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12
Richard Dawkins
#2. 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.
Charles Stross
#3. 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.
Susan Blackmore
#4. 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.
Daniel Quinn
#5. Apparently, there was even a meme created already. The incredibly photogenic glowing-alien meme.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#6. I don't think I could ever complete anyone. But driving someone insane sounds doable. -Internet meme
Darynda Jones
#7. When Vern had described Meme users so estranged from everyday language that they didn't know what words they didn't know, I
Alena Graedon
#8. Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
Peter Watts
#9. 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.
Grimes
#10. You can't make someone love you. You can only stalk them and hope for the best. - INTERNET MEME
Darynda Jones
#11. The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins
#12. When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.
Richard Dawkins
#13. 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.
Jay Roach
#14. 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.
Tina Brown
#15. 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.
Grimes
#16. Whorf, even though he died in 1941, lent us a meme.
Anonymous
#17. Everyone had believed for capitalism and democracy to grow, the corporation had to grow; though that was wrong, the idea stuck. Democracy was the meme, but corporate growth was an idea imbedded into that meme. Hard to shake one from the other.
Carla R. Herrera
#18. Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their friends, are trying to put out this meme that we are denying women their choice.
Asra Nomani
#19. Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
John Hodgman
#20. The Life of Pi' timelessly encapsulates an objectively true & real meme that God is Love and seeks out those He calls unto himself."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#21. When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
Nate Silver
#22. It's an internet meme," I said, matter-of-factly. "I'd tell you to Google it, but you've only got about five minutes to live and you're going to spend every one of those fighting for your life.
Robert J. Crane
#23. It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the universe. (Not even remotely.) - MEME
Darynda Jones
#25. Our task is to create memes ... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
Terence McKenna
#26. Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
Andre Maurois
#27. I tried to start a gang once.
It turned into a book club.
- MEME
Darynda Jones
#28. 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.
Sam Harris
#29. 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.
Theo Jansen
#30. God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
#31. Signs you drink too much coffee: You don't sweat. You percolate.
Internet meme
Darynda Jones
#33. Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?
T.K. Naliaka
#34. Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.
Susan Blackmore
#35. You shouldn't give him a ride, Grace!" Meme snapped. "He's likely to strangle you and dump your body in the lake."
"Is this true?" I asked Callahan.
"I was thinking about it," he admitted.
Kristan Higgins
#36. The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#37. It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.
Terence McKenna
#38. All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.
Susan Blackmore
#39. Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.
Wayne Dyer
#40. curricular: they occur outside his playing remit. This is Lingard of the social media meme, the dab-dance
Andrew Kirby
#41. By the time he graduates, projected to be by his thirtieth birthday, Wheeler's transcript will be a meme used to scare children into studying harder.
Kurt Dinan
#42. Women usually tell that version of the truth which flatters them the most.
Valentin V.
#43. Are you going to eat me in my sleep?"
"Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato?
Rain Oxford
#45. It doesn't have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes.
Adam Kotsko
#46. She acts all scary, but she's been unusually nice to us, so... I know! She's the Tsundere-type zombie, amiright?!
Sakazaki Freddie
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