Kate Harris
@notthatkate
Kate Harris
- complicated ideas take more energy to transmit than simple ones
- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies
- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme
- for some p... See more
- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies
- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme
- for some p... See more
Mark P Xu Neyer • Every Complex Idea Has a Million Stupid Cousins
From a 1979 IBM presentation
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