Memetics Quotes

#1. You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.

Jay Roach

#2. 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

#3. Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.

Susan Blackmore

#4. In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

John F. Kerry

#5. I think it sometimes takes me a while, but I end up making good decisions at some point. Pretty much when I have exhausted all other options.

Aleksandr Voinov

#6. Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

Carroll Smith

#7. I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life for them. That doesn't happen every time, but those are the best.

Rachel McAdams

#8. There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#9. I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

Richard Dawkins

#10. The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

Sandra Bullock

#11. If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.

John Christopher

#12. When we're young we strive to pass on our genes. When we're older, we strive to pass on our memes.

Richard Goscicki

#13. Oh, if Plato could see me now ! Aristotle, traveler of time!

James Dashner

#14. Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how.

Herbert Mason

#15. Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

Jerry Saltz

#16. I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

Ken Buck