Memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically. 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. And this isn’t just […]
Ideas Quotes
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually […]
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Gray is the color of all theory.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don’t develop them.
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance.
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
