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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.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Came Chicago Coat Consumer Dressed Electronics First Floor Got Had Lab Lady Me Name Over People Pocket Programmer See Show Started Turquoise

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I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Dead Dead End Doomed End Interactive Television Think I Think

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Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Always Been Human Imagination Reality Small Too Transcend Trying

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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Boy Complex Delight Develop Earlier Enjoy Girl Interaction Skills Social Social Interaction Than Them Using Verbal

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I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Basically Because Been Best Business Computer Down Down The Road Driving Early Equal Example Five Game Imagination Learned Listening Minutes Partying Play Radio Realize Road Seen Senses Suddenly Visual You Your

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I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Believe Design Good Necessity Research Teach Way

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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Actually Anything Been Being Blow Break Computers Construct Elaborate Extreme How Like Looking Me Mental Model Part Pay People Quite Software Something Something People Sort Trying Unable Understand Up Will Without Wonderful Working I Can

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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.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Absolutely Business Computer Demographic Did Early Fairly Formed Game Girl Industry Late Lucrative Men Most Programs Quickly Very Well Were Women Work Worked Written Young Young Men 1970S 1960S

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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

Topics: Banking Because Bunch Companies Cultural Design Designing End Francisco Give Guys Including Institution Obscurity Own Sake San San Francisco Screw Themselves Those Up Web Website Who Work You

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The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Airplane Before Body Break Carbon Does Fly Horse Made Out Power Will You Your Your Body

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Designer

Born: Unknown

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