Quotes by Brenda Laurel

About Brenda Laurel:

Brenda Laurel is an advocate for girl video game development, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker, academic, consultant, and board member of several companies and organizations. She is currently a chair and professor at the California College of the Arts Graduate Program of Design. She has worked for Atari, co-founded game development firm Purple Moon, and served as an interaction design consultant for multiple companies, including Sony Pictures, Apple, and Citibank.
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I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because y...

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The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely di...

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Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborat...

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I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

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When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they s...

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I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

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When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.

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The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrenda Laurel
  • DescriptionVideo game developer