Viral Quotes

• Going viral isn’t random, magic, or luck. It’s a science.

  Jonah Berger

  Magic, Luck

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• How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Great liars are also great magicians.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Liars, Lying

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• The more awesome you are, the more emotion you create, the more viral it is.

  Emerson Spartz

  Emotion

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Helpful is the new viral.

  Laura Fitton

  Social Media, Helpful

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• I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Tv Shows, Broken

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I love that you can shoot something on your phone, or shoot something on these small Cannon cameras, and edit it overnight and get it out there the next day and potentially go viral. And that's huge. It really takes the middle-man out. It allows anybody to become a content creator.

  Jason Silva

  Men, Phones, Next Day

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Suicide, Daughter, Song

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• If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

  George Pendle

  Marketing, Giants, Consciousness

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• If you become a viral star, that is terrific!

  Al Walser

  Stars, Terrific, Ifs

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• In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think youve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of peoples opinions.

  Nikki Sixx

  Thinking, Negativity, Positive Energy

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• There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Long, Victory, Done

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• The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

  Luc Montagnier

  Ideas, Vaccines, Viruses

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• Facebook is inherently viral.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  "Startup School: An Interview With Mark Zuckerberg". Interview with Jessica Livingston, techcrunch.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I don't even have Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Why would I ever want to be viral when I'm not even on the Internet?

  Mila Kunis

  Want, Instagram, Internet

  "We Drank Bourbon With Mila Kunis. Be Jealous". Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.

  Peter Guber

  Heart, Technology, Fans

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2014

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• Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Video, Today, Rooms

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Internet wasn't even an option for me, so one of the reasons I was so motivated to do street art was because there was no other outlet. Maybe if the Internet had been around then, I would have tried to do stuff that went viral and was clever and got me a lot of hits.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Clever, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

  Nick Denton

  Cat, Campaigns, Video

  "Gawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to pick fight with BuzzFeed" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

  Ricky Van Veen

  Identity, Video, Creation

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• I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

  William Shatner

  Thinking, Ideas, Fans

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• Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

  Patch Adams

  Laughter, Pain, Cancer

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• Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

  Barbara Walters

  Fire, Hug, President

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• Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination

  Viera Scheibner

  Years, Names, Issues

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• There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Music, Funny Things, People

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