Quotes About Powerpoint

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

Charles Stross

#2. It may sound as though she wants a simple PowerPoint presentation about the business, but if she's hoping to persuade a client of something, you'll want your slides to help do that. Be clear, too, about deadlines and who needs to be looped in on the project.

Kate White

#3. occurrence - yet the rarer the event, the more confident these "scientists" involved in predicting, modeling, and using PowerPoint in conferences with equations in multicolor background have become.

Anonymous

#4. Too many would-be beautiful businesses that could reinvent markets and create substantial value live only in PowerPoint documents, never to be launched.

Scott D. Anthony

#5. Did you know that Jeff Bezos, in place of PowerPoint presentations in meetings, requires his execs to write six-page narrative memos?

Bryan Eisenberg

#6. 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

#7. PowerPoint makes us stupid.

James Mattis

#8. We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

James Gleick

#9. Paper and digital prototypes, PowerPoint mockups, personas, filmed user testimonials, and 3D printed objects can be used to build excitement, communicate vision, and share understanding.

Alden Globe

#10. I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

Warren Spector

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

Edward Tufte

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

Peter Norvig

#13. There are a lot of things wrong with this particular approach to getting your girlfriend to agree to reenter a relationship with you. Probably the biggest problem is that it's a PowerPoint presentation.

Katie Heaney

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

Steven Pinker

#15. 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

#16. Work hard, but make time for you love, family and friends. Nobody remembers powerpoint presentations on your final day

Chetan Bhagat

#17. 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 doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

Sherry Turkle

#18. Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.

Nina Bangs

#19. I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.

Elizabeth Price

#20. 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

#21. If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

Edward Tufte

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

Andy Hargreaves

#23. Aw, bloody hell. Please tell me you're not making her a PowerPoint presentation.

Melissa McClone

#24. I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.

Libba Bray

#25. My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

Nancy Duarte

#26. The Software You will have to buy Microsoft Office, which contains PowerPoint, or you can download the freeware OpenOffice, which contains Impress. Once you understand the basics of how to use these programs to create the book cover, you may prefer to use some other presentation software. Both

Jimmy Clay

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

Peter Norvig

#28. Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business plan - have something people can use, and go from there.

Chad Hurley

#29. If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad

Lee Clow

#30. 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

#31. The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides ... It's the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you're writing, because the teacher won't like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Seth Godin

#32. Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

Rick Riordan

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

Ken Goldberg

#34. 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 R. Tufte

#35. I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

Brie Larson

#36. Was a master of the PowerPoint presentation nearly a century before it existed.

Scott Anderson

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

Edward Tufte

#38. 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

#39. Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

David Byrne

#40. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.

Walter Isaacson

#41. Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation.

Dale Ludwig

#42. In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.

Ian Lamont

#43. Your slides should be a billboard not a document!

Lee Jackson