Quotes from Brianna Wu

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

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.

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

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

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

The BBC called me 'defiant' in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.

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.

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

My big lesson from Gamergate is asking the men in charge to do the right thing does not work. So we need women, we need people of color in positions of power not just in the game industry but at social media and tech companies and in Congress.

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

Before I ran for office, I ran a game studio.

Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.

Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't that they were outwardly opposed to white and black people attending school together, it was that the rulings threatened their proud identity as independent Southerners.

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

Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it's threatening our entire industry.

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.

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

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

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

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.

GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.

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

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