Quotes & Sayings About Powerpoint Presentations

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

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

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

In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience. — Ian Lamont

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

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps. — Alex Gibney

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

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

Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation. — Dale Ludwig

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