Toh EnJoe > Quotes

“When I went to demolish my grandmother's house, a whole bunch of Freuds came up from under the floorboards.”
― Toh EnJoe, Self-Reference ENGINE

“Do harmless viruses count as 'viruses' fory ou, though? Most viruses are like that. Lethal ones attract attention, that's all. If they're getting detected and eradicated, then they're flops. The truth of the matter is that current security technology isn't something that humans can gauge in its entirety. That includes barriers.”
― Toh EnJoe, The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Short Stories

“Which signal works like a virus depends on which system is receiving the signal (...) To judge whether something is a virus, you need to know what you are, but that's becoming opaque.”
― Toh EnJoe, The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Short Stories

“A virus isn't really a virus in and of itself (...) Depending on how you look at it, an email is a virus. To the extent that they consist of a string of signs, they're the same. If an email doesn't wreck havoc, that's only because the recipient lacks the reaction system to react to the email. Try conceiving of human thought as something enabled by software (...) Say you're moved by an email. If that movement of your heart 'lay beyond expectations,' then the email worked on your emotions like a virus. Consider the Werther effect. A novel managed to increase the mortality rate. It's just that you can't trace the causality because the system is too complex.”
― Toh EnJoe, The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Short Stories