Broad Band Quotes

“They are never so seduced by the box that they forget why it’s there: to enrich human life.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“The incorporeal newness that so intoxicated the earliest women online has morphed; it has become what the games critic Katherine Cross aptly calls a "Möbius strip of reality and unreality," in which Internet culture "becomes real when it is convenient and unreal when it is not; real enough to hurt people in, unreal enough to justify doing so.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“Somewhere along the line, she finally finished her dissertation, which argued that computer programs are like theater: they both have scripts, and neither perform, or are performed, the same way twice.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“The novelist Richard Powers once wrote that “software is the final victory of description over thing.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“An irony: even as computer memory multiplies, our ability to hold on to personal memories remains a matter of will, bounded by the skull and expanded only by our capacity to tell stories.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“That’s what software is, I realize: a system for changing your mind.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“Men may have dropped bombs, but it was women who told them where to do it.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“She and Nancy were having a hard time getting through to the VC firms they were meeting with, because most potential investors were men who regarded the notion of a women’s network as little more than a curiosity. “Some got it, of course,” remembers Ellen. But with others, “you’d get the classic, where someone says, ‘I’m gonna have my wife look at this.’ They didn’t really take it seriously as a market or as an opportunity. They would think we were a fringe group.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“These guys don’t get this at all.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“A generation of smart, creative, nonacademic, and nontechnical users had to come along first to forge the connections”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“one professor who told her she’d be better off as a housewife—”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

“their talents were being wasted on dreck.”
― Claire L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet