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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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 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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Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.
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I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
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Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
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I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
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Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
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Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.
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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.
