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.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

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.

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?

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

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.

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

You can never complain your way into a happy successful life.

Half demon, half human, wholly f*cked." ~ Muse

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

The first time he saw me, comatose with a head the size of 3 basketballs, he didn't even think it was me.

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.