Top 60 Brianna Wu Quotes

I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

In software engineering, we have the term ‘technical debt.’ When you don’t do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work.

My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it’s a muscle that can do no more.

A lot of people don’t know this about me but actually I started in politics.

To its credit, Twitter is at least making an effort to curb hate speech towards transgender people, training its staff how to respond.

Let’s not glamorize abuse.

I look at my own party, and I see that we’ve taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked – and I don’t know what else to do other than get involved myself.

The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that’s not making us connect with a lot of voters.

Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.

Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.

It’s not like I’m advocating that we ban ‘Call of Duty’ or anything silly like that, I’m asking is for companies to look at their hiring practices, to hire more women… and make sure they portray women in their games in a socially responsible way.

Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn’t.

In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism.

There’s a common misconception about running for office. People think it’s dreadful, morally compromising work. But I’ve found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.

With major films costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood is an industry that tends to repeat patterns when they make money.

Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear – rightly – that they will be targeted and harassed.

I work in the tech industry and my husband works in biotech. He’s head of IP for a company listed on the NASDAQ. And we have a lot of discussions in tech and biotech about the role of unionization in our industries.

I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that’s an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don’t fit the old gamer stereotype.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.

The truth is, the sexist behaviour that really holds women in games back doesn’t come from the moustache-twirling cartoon villains of Gamergate. It’s the sexist hiring practices of our journalistic institutions. It’s the consistently over-sexualised designs we see.

I’m a reasonably accomplished journalist. I’ve worked as an investigative journalist, I’ve done crime beat stuff.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that’s something that I take very seriously.

I’ve spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

In stopping Gamergate, the men who dominate it – not just women – must address the culture that created Gamergate.

I am a programmer. If I write code, I don’t evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.

My mom bought a computer in the ’80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.

If you don’t know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.

For most of 2016 and 2017, I would say probably 90% of my Twitter feed was automated bots sending repetitive messages at me. Someone would basically pay bots to send me messages over and over and over again. It made Twitter nearly unusable.

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn’t work.

I don’t want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

If you run a website where people can congregate, you have a moral responsibility to make sure that community is not harassed.

I have an unfortunate history with Ethan Ralph. Like many women in the game industry, I’ve been doxed by him multiple times.

The first game I remember being ridiculously passionate about was Super Mario Bros. 2. It was the first game where you could play as Princess Peach. It wasn’t just a game where the boys had their adventure. Peach was in the game and she was so powerful there.

There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.

I love video games dearly.

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.

The public will forgive you almost anything if you’re honest about it.

For me, especially running for office, being on Twitter is a fundamental part of my job.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn’t available to them for whatever reason.

Even when the nation’s leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.

I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I’ve been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, ‘Final Fantasy,’ ‘Dragon Warrior’ and ‘Super Mario’ offered a lifeboat.

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

Walking is great, I guess.

I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes.

I’ve rarely talked about Obama’s share of the blame for the rise of the alt-right and Gamergate.

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I’ve had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter’s platform.

GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.

There’s a common personality type to software developers – one I certainly fall into. We’re more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone’s eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.

The video game industry traditionally has been a very male-dominated field. You know, with the advent of the iPhone, the number of women gamers exploded.

For any prosecutor, a decision to show leniency in sentencing must be weighed against multiple factors. Do they show remorse for their actions? Are they a threat to the public and law enforcement? Do they intend to contribute to society?

Facebook, Apple, Tinder, Snapchat, and Google create our social realities – how we make friends, how we get jobs, and how mankind interacts. And the truth is, women don’t truly have a seat at the table.

It’s sad when ‘Grand Theft Auto’ has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.

The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter’s rules, that needs to be implemented every time.