Memes Quotes

“Well, I tried, and therefore no one should criticize me.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Words are memes that can be pronounced.”
― Daniel C. Dennett

“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common birthplace. Eventually, of course, they'd wither and die; the cone would simply dissipate at its wide end, its permutations senescent and exhausted.

There were exceptions, of course. Every now and then a single thread persisted, grew thick and gnarled and unkillable: conspiracy theories and urban legends, the hooks embedded in popular songs, the comforting Easter-bunny lies of religious doctrine. These were the memes: viral concepts, infections of conscious thought. Some flared and died like mayflies. Others lasted a thousand years or more, tricked billions into the endless propagation of parasitic half-truths.”
― Peter Watts, Maelstrom

“What are words worth if you write like Wordsworth? Not as much as a man named Wordsandpicturesworth. That's so long, so I'd just call him Memesworth, and I'd use him to help me sell ducks.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“i do not support all women. some of you bitches are very dumb!!!”
― GURUJAHRA

“People used to read books and watch movies. Now people read memes and tweets and watch GIFs. I'm currently writing something about ducks that I hope you'll say is an instant classic six seconds into the experience.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“It would be great to find a nice tree to sit under and talk, but most trees these days are rude, and their conversations are filled with snarky sarcasm. I blame Meme Culture.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“It would be nice to find a nice tree to sit under and talk, but most trees these days are rude, and their conversations are filled with snarky sarcasm. I blame Meme Culture.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“What are words worth if you write like Wordsworth? Not as much as a man named Wordsandpicturesworth. That's so long, so I just call him Memesworth.”
― Jarod Kintz, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“History is now being documented in the moment through memes, and they shape our memories. I make them as if to say, "I was here, and I mocked this time and place.”
― Jarod Kintz, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“We shared some laughs, her and I. I was content to go on sharing, but she took her whole Box of Laughter and went home, leaving me alone with my memes.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Don't just read - explore
Don't just entertain - enthuse
Don't just educate - enable
Don't just think - share
Don't just show - involve
Don't just love - believe
Don't just lead - Inspire!”
― Suzy Davies

“Before accepting a new job, you need to know if you'll like it or not. That's easy to do. Just simply search for memes that skewer that occupation.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“I just stuffed my briefcase full of necessary items, and now I'm off to work. It's heavy to carry because it contains 333 dank memes and one baloney sandwich.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“I've been to Mansfield. Maybe one day I'll go back and find myself an Amish woman to marry and we will have enough kids so they can all just pick up my barn and we can move my duck farm to the newest Meme Factory where I'll find work as a caption creator.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Politics is scripted for maximum shock that will lead to gossip and speculation. We are living in a sketch comedy zone. Everything is designed to be memed.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“With tweets and memes, things are exponentially funnier than they used to be 20 years ago. Back then, people went around endlessly quoting the same 20 movies, and acting like each time was hilarious, as we gave and received obligatory chuckles.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“The acquisition of language is never treated as what it actually is: a near-miraculous process; the most important thing that ever happens to us. It’s what changes us from unconscious animals into conscious humans. It’s what makes us the masters of the world. It’s what allows memes to overcome genes, culture to overcome mere biology.”
― Rob Armstrong, Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers

“One does not simply meme revolutions by halves. Even those with the shortest of attention spans could hold their focus for at least 9.81 meters per second squared.”
― Lil Low-Cu$$'t, The Swarm

“Social media people would rather support your beef than support your hustle. They rather share your memes rather than share your business posts.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“[The biologist Richard] Dawkins defined memes as ideas that spread from brain to brain—a cultural analogue to genes that replicate and spread. The concept is mostly used now to describe funny or irreverent images that go viral online and then are altered to keep the joke or idea alive as it ricochets around the internet. But in a digital age, when attackers can upload their own words and deeds to social media rather than relying on TV to achieve notoriety, it has a darker connotation….Mass shooters are unique only in that they don’t want to live in the glory of their newly achieved social status and visibility. They want notoriety, to become legends in their deaths.”
― Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

“WE LIVE WE LOVE WE LIE ”
― Smurf cat himself

“The word meme was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins to draw an analogy between how genes can propagate in populations by evolution and how small units of ideas can propagate between people. Memes (discrete units of knowledge, gossip, jokes and so on) are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool, cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes. (Richard Dawkins, according to Merriam-Webster)”
― Jonathan M. Berman, Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

“Erm... What the sigma”
― Mr. Belding

“Memes will save the world.”
― Sharky Rich

“Your phone can be your sidekick or your worst enemy—choose wisely! It's a gadget that can keep you connected, help you learn, and organize your life, but it can also pull you into a black hole of mindless scrolling and endless notifications. Be careful how you wield that power! Your phone should be a tool, not a trap. Use it to level up, not to lose hours to memes and drama. Remember, you’re in control of your screen time—don’t let your phone turn into your digital overlord!”
― Life is Positive

“Then I baptize you in the name of the Algorithm, the Infinite Scroll, and the Holy Feed.”
― Michael Karlsen- Williksen, The Church of Common Sense: Book I - The Spark

“There are many fake memes
floating about the internet,
one of them misquotes me saying -
'spare the toilet, spoil the floor.'

I turn junk into jewel,
I reclaim the fakes as fuel.
Spare the toilet, spoil the floor.
Spare the fascist, spoil the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Memes have always been kind of like a virus. Whenever you learn a new word, you can think of it as coming into contact with a parasite. Either your guard is up and you reject the word, or it breaks through your defenses and you become a “host,” using and replicating the word for it to reach a larger population. Then there’s the uncanny similarity between how we talk about the ways that words and diseases spread: We say they move through social networks in a “viral” manner, hence the phrase “gone viral.” Many linguists even use epidemiological models to show the spread or lifespan of ideas.”
― Adam Aleksic, Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

“This is is why so many algospeak euphemisms are specific to the online domain of use. Words like “sewerslide” and “seggs” are understood as shared vernacular in the algospace. To use them is to recognize that they are pieces of the social media sociolect and culture. The “brainrot” genre, especially,
relies on shared folklore. Each word is only funny when it refers back to the running history of other brainrot words. Memes are necessarily understood in the context of other memes; terms like “skibidi” are popularized as postironic nods to the very culture that spawned the overuse of niche comedic references.”
― Adam Aleksic, Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language