Top 55 Zoe Quinn Quotes

Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to everyone.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

Ultimately, I love everything about making games, but I’ve come to hate everything about conventional sustainability, and I know I’m not alone.

I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it’s true and a lot of people don’t do independent verification of everything they hear.

The No. 1 thing I’ve seen actually help with online abuse is when the person has a good community or a strong support network that’s savvy and that can help them.

I like the idea of using cool cyberpunk stuff to tell really stupid jokes.

I’ve lived my entire life online.

I still really love the Internet.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn’t find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it’s not a real issue – that it’s ‘only’ online – or that it’s limited to someone saying they don’t like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say ‘online harassment.’

I just wanted to make video games.

I’m so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

There’s an idea that, ‘Oh, the more technology you have, or the more you modify your body, the less human you are.’ I think that’s super gross, and inaccurate, and also offensive to anybody who relies on technology to live.

There have been a number of film, TV, and – actually – theater productions that have been based off of me. Pretty much none of them have ever actually spoken to me, and I die in most of them.

It’s very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.

In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I’m under.

I still strongly feel that a lot of people who participated in Gamergate, who participated in this sort of thing, are doing so because they go into it with – they’ll believe the version of events that fits their world view.

It sucks to not have any privacy.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I’d been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

I’m an independent game developer – there’s not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I’m close to I know because of the Internet.

Monster Hearts is pretty cool!

It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we’ll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers – whatever you want to call us – thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.

I like the weather in England.

The first week of Gamergate, I didn’t sleep or eat at all.

Sailor Moon’ was the first time I could say I was a super-duper-fan of something. I remember watching before school, at like 6 A.M. along with ‘Dragonball Z’ or ‘Beast Wars,’ depending on the months.

I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks – I don’t want it to be the end of the sentence.

It’s weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It’s like you become a meme, and you’re not a person anymore, and people don’t mind stealing your life.

What people don’t realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or ‘best practices,’ you’re also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game ‘should’ be.

I don’t want to tell a story about how technological advancement is bad.

You don’t really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.

We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that’s humorous, and we all laugh. That’s generally how, just mechanically – super-distilled – comedy works.

The thing about astroturfing is that it can be really believable.

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

Our justice system is a punitive one that’s there to sort of deal with what happens after someone’s already offended.

The majority of my work in games, outside of ‘Depression Quest,’ has been experimental pushes into comedy games. I think there are a lot of intersections there.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

The topic is too big, there’s too many people who live with it, and too many moving pieces for anyone to do a definitive statement on what depression is like for everyone. ‘Depression Quest’s’ goal was to be a basic introduction to the concept and to get the conversation started.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert.

I really, really, really love writing comics.

I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

Being able to work in comics at all – I know I came into it from a different medium, but I’d like to stay here. It’s not like a weird touristy thing for me.

The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia.

I would not have pretty much any of the good things in my life if it weren’t for the Internet.

I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it’s hard to discern how many people are actually involved.

I’ve been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.

If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would’ve been on the wrong side.

GamerGate and what it’s been doing, is wrong.

GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too.

My entire career is online – I create games on the web.

It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don’t have data ethicists.

A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this path and start publishing immediately.