Marc Andreessen on the history and definition of the meme: "There are sort of two definitions of meme. Number one: a meme can just be like a funny image that spreads virally. That's its colloquial usage today." "Underneath that, though, is a deeper idea. The term 'meme' was originally actually invented by Richard Dawkins." "The physical transmission of information through living things is the 'gene.' And then the conceptual, intellectual transmission of ideas through people, networks of people, and societies is called the 'meme.'" "He basically said... successful ideas propagate like a gene does. They spread from person to person, and they flourish." "Democracy is a meme. And communism was a meme. Religions are memes. This is kind of this very core idea of basically ideas and concepts traveling through kind of what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious: the sort of complete assembly of minds on planet Earth." @pmarca