Zoe Quinn

“Everyone who has felt alienated by the games industry, both would-be players and creators, needs to rally together and support one another as we create a space for those of us who don't fit in traditional spaces.”

“Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to everyone.”

“I'm an independent game developer - there's not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I'm close to I know because of the Internet.”

“There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.”

“I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.”

“I still love gaming and the gaming community.”

“I'm a weird goofy dork.”

“I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.”

“I have to wonder if some part of the difficulty in dealing with the repercussions of your actions on the Internet is just that we were not ever really built for being able to conceive of a global community of anything.”

“The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.”

“The first week of Gamergate, I didn't sleep or eat at all.”

“I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet.”

“I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it's hard to discern how many people are actually involved.”

“It's weird when you stop being a person to a lot of folks and just become a weird talking point. It's like you become a meme, and you're not a person anymore, and people don't mind stealing your life.”

“Depression Quest's' tone is one of hope. Many players have told me they've tried to take steps in their life to get their illness under control. I tear up while reading my e-mail on subways a lot.”

“I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.”

“Ultimately, I love everything about making games, but I've come to hate everything about conventional sustainability, and I know I'm not alone.”

“When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.”

“People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.”

“In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.”