Quotes on PowerPoint
| Curtis |
Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 2:50 PM |
"The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use. I learned it in a few hours."
-- David Byrne, formerly of the Talking Heads
"Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."
-- Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer
"My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings."
-- Peter Norvig, of Google, Inc.
"Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it."
-- Peter Norvig
"If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant."
-- Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus at Yale University
"PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple."
-- Edward Tufte
| Guest |
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 at 9:41 AM |
PowerPoint is designed for making a slide show a little more attractive with images and text that move, but when an idiot makes them all move, interest is lost.
