Accountants Quote by Ian Lamont

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

— Rolf Dobelli

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

— Vinod Khosla

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets…

— Naveen Jain

There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a…

— Aaron Koblin

You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

— Steven Redhead

“If Auto Fill is the Japanese throwing star of spreadsheets, then making charts surely is the equivalent of Japanese calligraphy. With just a few…

— Ian Lamont

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data…

— Anonymous

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands…

— Dave Barry

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.

— Scott D. Anthony

“I’m told finance doesn’t require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.

— Jefferson Han