Powerpoint Quotes

I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Hate, Thinking

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PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Peter Norvig

Ak 47, People, Tables

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Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with “Once upon a time

Jonathan Gottschall

Data, People, Once Upon A Time

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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Vinton Cerf

Power Corrupts

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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Walter Isaacson

Inspirational, Talking, People

Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

Edward Tufte

School, Simple, Play

"PowerPoint Is Evil" by Edward Tufte, www.wired.com. September 1, 2003.

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My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

Peter Norvig

Ak 47, People, Belief

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PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

David Byrne

Use, May, Way

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I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

Steve Jobs

Hate, Thinking, People

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PowerPoint makes us stupid.

James Mattis

Stupid, Enemy

"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint" by Elisabeth Bumiller, www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

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PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.

Ken Goldberg

No Respect, Software

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Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

Peter Norvig

Ak 47, Tables, Loaded

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At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good your PowerPoint slides are or your strategy or concept. What it really comes down to is your team. How motivated and willing are they to reinvent your organization and how much do they understand the evolving consumer need?

Jeremy Gutsche

Team, Organization, The End Of The Day

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If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

Steven Pinker

Thinking, Way, Used

"The Man Who Invented PowerPoint". Interview with Clay Chandler, bento.hult.edu.

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Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

Peter Norvig

Feet, Choices, Let Me

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Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends.
Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day

Chetan Bhagat

Hard Work, Family Love, Family And Friends

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When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.

Emma Stone

Years, Parent, Hollywood

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

Edward Tufte

Long, Topics, Slides

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PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

Clive Thompson

Thinking, Opposites, Data

Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.56, Penguin

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PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

Edward Tufte

Style, Cartoon, Tools

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Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint.

Roger McNamee

Vision

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Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

Charles Stross

Bullshit, Surface, Corporate

Charles Stross (2009). “The Jennifer Morgue”, p.38, Penguin

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You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Andy Hargreaves

Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

Sherry Turkle

Thinking, Knowing, Culture

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People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

Ken Robinson

Mother, Cutting, Technology

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