Zoe Quinn Quotes

"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."

"It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification."

"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."

"What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be."

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

"Making accessible games opens up the world of digital play to people living with disability, or even simply people who lack the literacy of an intimidating twin-stick controller."

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

"GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too."

"A cool thing about enthusiast press is the low barrier to entry. Anyone can decide they want to set out on this path and start publishing immediately."

"Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life."

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

"Games are awesome. Stop letting jerks hijack them."

"I'm a weird goofy dork."

"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."

"I still strongly feel that a lot of people who participated in Gamergate, who participated in this sort of thing, are doing so because they go into it with - they'll believe the version of events that fits their world view."

"The majority of my work in games, outside of 'Depression Quest,' has been experimental pushes into comedy games. I think there are a lot of intersections there."

"I know the first time I see a 'Goddess Mode' cosplayer I'm going to cry in such a loud, obnoxious way that it'll be audible from space."

"I really, really, really love writing comics."

"I think as an author every character ends up low-key being some kind of self-insert."

"Vertigo's always been a label that experiments with new stuff and forms of subversion."

"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."

"Monster Hearts is pretty cool!"

"I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home."

"It sucks to not have any privacy."

"I still really love the Internet."