Quotes from Brianna Wu

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

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.

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

Let's not glamorize abuse.

Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

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.

With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business.

If you're fortunate enough not to know, Gamergate is the misogynist hate group of the video game world.

For a hate group originally focused on video games, anger over a comedy movie for starring women might seem ridiculous. But at its core, Gamergate is about a toxic male sense of ownership over geek culture.

Something that's hard for me, I remember being a child in the '80s and looking at this field. It was a field I wanted very much to go into, but I didn't see people who looked like me working in video games. You can't really be it if you can't see it.

I love video games dearly.

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

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

It is not a secret that I am a feminist and I have more liberal views and a lot of these GamerGaters have more right-wing views.

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.