Brenda Laurel

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s.…

— Brenda Laurel

When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own…

— Brenda Laurel

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

— Brenda Laurel

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

— Brenda Laurel

When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with…

— Brenda Laurel

I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to…

— Brenda Laurel

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

— Brenda Laurel

When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all…

— Brenda Laurel

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can…

— Brenda Laurel

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

— Brenda Laurel

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

— Brenda Laurel

Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

— Brenda Laurel

Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives…

— Brenda Laurel

You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

— Brenda Laurel

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it;…

— Brenda Laurel