"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
“A good PowerPoint show turned a failed project into a success in the eyes of top management. As often is the case, senior executives had no knowledge or no real interest in what was really going on.”
― Mats Alvesson
"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 (1955-2011)
"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
"People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint."
— Walter Isaacson
Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
— Vinton Cerf
"PowerPoint makes us stupid."
— James Mattis
"I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking"
— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
"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