Brenda Laurel Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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

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

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

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#8. Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

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

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#10. Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

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

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