Brenda Laurel
American video game designer and researcher
Lived from: 1950 -
Born: 20 november 1950
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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
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Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
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The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
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When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
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When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
― Brenda Laurel
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