Brianna Wu

“Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“What's the fundamental problem that VR solves better than anything? To me it's straightforward. It's story. VR tells stories better than any medium.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.”