Top 49 Quotes About Memes
#1. You're either with us ... or you're with the memes!
George W. Bush
#2. 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
#3. Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
Keith Henson
#4. They're more interested in their fucking iPhones than doing their jobs. I can see the glow of their phone screens on their faces as they check e-mail, update their Facebook slaveware, dream of living, breathing, and fucking through the anonymity of text and memes.
Shane Kuhn
#5. I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.
Taylor Swift
#6. Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
#7. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.
Susan Blackmore
#8. Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#9. Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
Terence McKenna
#10. Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and so on. These often are context-triggered, so that one can have quite different types of moral responses, affects, needs, etc., in different situations.
Ken Wilber
#11. In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.
Ernst Mayr
#12. Our task is to create memes ... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
Terence McKenna
#13. 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
#14. When we're young we strive to pass on our genes. When we're older, we strive to pass on our memes.
Richard Goscicki
#15. 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
#16. i will post horrible memes if u dont stop now
Martin
#17. 'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our own benefit - think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.
Susan Blackmore
#18. Side note: is anyone else grateful social media wasn't a thing when they were a teenager? It's like Draco Malfoy and all three Heathers smooshed into one invisible organism that thrives on Internet memes and passive aggression.
Brittany Gibbons
#19. It doesn't have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes.
Adam Kotsko
#20. And when we stop questioning our ideologies, we stop improving or replacing our existing memes with better ones.
Erika Ilves
#21. Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.
Gudjon Bergmann
#22. 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.
Richard Dawkins
#23. Everything you see in the world around you is content of some kind. The clothes you wear, the songs you sing, the ads you watch, the food you buy, the tunes you hum and the memes you share. Everything is a signal that sends a message.
David Amerland
#24. The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
Daniel Dennett
#26. the battle-memes of the invading alien consciousness aided by the thought processes and shared knowledge of the by now obviously completely overwhelmed ship. With
Iain M. Banks
#27. Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?
Susan Blackmore
#28. You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because of congruence with what we think we know. Science demands skepticism.
Tim Ward
#29. I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.
George Takei
#30. Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
Daniel Dennett
#31. Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity
Clifford A. Pickover
#32. The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad.
Paul Di Filippo
#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. Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.
Susan Blackmore
#36. For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing - what do you call them - memes?
Sean Bean
#37. I don't know how a culture is going to evolve, but I think the way the Internet works now is, people go to the Internet to laugh and have a good time. That's why Tumblr feeds and I Can Has Cheezburger and memes get thrown into the blender with real news and sports news and politics and that stuff.
Drew Magary
#38. When it's only Monday and my bestie is already having a horrible week, I start hunting for memes to send him so that in amongst all the pain and misery he can get really annoyed that his whatsapp is going every two minutes with pointless pictures taking up all of the space on his phone.
C.S. Woolley
#39. Successful cultures are those that excel in reproducing their memes, irrespective of the costs and benefits to their human hosts.
Yuval Noah Harari
#40. The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.
Susan Blackmore
#41. If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
Susan Blackmore
#42. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.
Susan Blackmore
#43. If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.
Susan Blackmore
#44. I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
Toyin Odutola
#46. What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree, and is dangerous?"
"A sparrow with a machine gun."
"Or course
Batman Memes
#47. 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
#48. What you post on Facebook represents you, it can make you look bitter or better, forgiving or frustrated, resentful or rejoicing, choose wisely.
Rob Liano
#49. She acts all scary, but she's been unusually nice to us, so... I know! She's the Tsundere-type zombie, amiright?!
Sakazaki Freddie
