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.
Dan Sperber
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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.
Dan Ariely
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.
Tavi Gevinson
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A.
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
Barbara Corcoran
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
Cameron Diaz
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.
Laura Esquivel
'Mami,' Ti-Jeanne said, 'I should go and get Baby. He ain’t take to Tony.''Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can’t always have what he want.'
Nalo Hopkinson
What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
William Shakespeare
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.
Nell Scovell
As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
Kyp Malone
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.
Dan Sperber
