Replication Quotes:

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

topic: Technology, Space, Brain, Symbolic, Deep Space

Teach one girl how to code, she'll teach four. The replication effect is so powerful.

- Reshma Saujani

topic: Girl, Powerful, Four, Replication

A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

- Kalle Lasn

topic: Dream, Fashion, Philosophy, Information Age, Memes

The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.

- Catherine Fisher

source: Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.184, Penguin

topic: Art, Nice, Mean, Too Nice, Replication

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.

- Audrey Flack

source: Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult

topic: Powerful, Lying, Color, Life Size, Replication

We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Opportunity, People, Leader, Municipality, Quality Service

When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.

- Martin Gardner

topic: Successful, Atheism, Tests, Replication

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

- Daniel Suarez

source: Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

topic: Simple, Perfect, Brain, Central Nervous System, Replication

To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.

- Philip Auslander

source: Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.23, Routledge

topic: Moving, Theatre, Television, Live Performance, Live Theatre

It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next decade. The entry of large numbers of American and other biochemists into the field will ensure that all the chemical details of replication and transcription will be elucidated. Because of this, I have long felt that the future of molecular biology lies in the extension of research to other fields of biology, notably development and the nervous system.

- Sydney Brenner

topic: Lying, Numbers, Long, Biochemistry, Replication

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: College, Goal, Viruses, Replication

Because of the irresistible nature of our own Imagos, I think the replication of it in music is a siren song - we love those tormented songs, and we listen to them over and over and over the way that we smash ourselves into our lovers, or the same kind of lover, over and over. That drive is tireless, until it is resolved. And we can "enjoy" it safely through music, which is a simulacrum we have power over.

- Melissa Febos

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Song, Thinking, Sirens, Simulacrum, Replication

Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

- Annie Proulx

source: Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rain, Hair, Rocks, Quiver, Replication

We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.

- Cyril Ponnamperuma

topic: Life, Thinking, Energy, Vikings, Definition Of Life

You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

source: Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

topic: Animal, Survival, Development, Nothing Is Easy, Replication

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

- Douglas Rushkoff

source: "NSA's phone snooping a different kind of creepy" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

topic: Media, Television, May, Digital Media, Parthenon

... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

- Lev Manovich

topic: Photography, Loss, Technology, Digital Technology, Replication