Brianna Wu

“I think there is a war on women in technology.”

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

“I love video games dearly.”

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

“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.”

“Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women's reputations.”

“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 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.”

“GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“It's see no evil, hear no evil with toxic male gamers - whose every whim and adolescent fantasy has been catered to for decades.”

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

“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.”

“In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.”

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

“We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.”

“The real question is whether or not the communities that rule the Internet can make their spaces safer for users, especially women and minorities.”