Giants Quote by Max Levchin

I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to…

— Steve Jobs

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

— Fred Ritchin

The entertainment is in the presentation.

— John McTiernan

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

— Charles Stross

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

— Edward Tufte

When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I…

— Padmasree Warrior

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who…

— David Byrne

“Putting together a slideshow makes it all too easy for employees to only skim the surface of their ideas while creating the illusion of…

— John Rossman

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

— Edward Tufte

“And then, you’ve got to sit down and write what I call the “Voice Over” for each slide. You’ve got to decide exactly what…

— Peter Coughter

“Some use a slideshow program’s outline view to build a structure on which they can hang all their ideas, and then easily rearrange them…

— Grant Barrett

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

— Anonymous