Dan Sperber Quotes
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Hay dolores que han perdido la memoria y no recuerdan por qué son dolores.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
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The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.
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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
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To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.
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What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.
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If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.
