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.
Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.