February 16, 2005

Peckish's Laws of Memetics

A Good Idea doesn’t care who has it.
--Peckish’s First Law of Memetics

A Good Idea doesn’t care who has it first.
--First Corollary to the First Law

Some people, on the other hand, do care about both, passionately.
--Third Law

Most people don’t care where it came from, so long as they are spared the effort of having the idea themselves.
--Second Law

Ideas want as many people as possible to have them, or at least harbor or play host to them. Other people’s ideas want other people to have them instead of your ideas.
--Blood in the Memepool / Memepool Predation

Posted by foote at February 16, 2005 12:09 PM