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PowerPoint makes us stupid.
Jim Mattis /
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Stupid
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PowerPoint makes us stupid.
James Mattis /
Enemy
Powerpoint
Stupid
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Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint.
Roger Mcnamee / Musician
Powerpoint
Vision
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If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
Edward Tufte / Statistician
Computers
Computer
Overhead
Power Of Love
Powerpoint
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Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Vinton Cerf / Engineer
Power Corrupts
Powerpoint
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If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad
Lee Clow / Art Director
Ads
Deck
Powerpoint
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Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.
Peter Norvig / Computer Scientist
Ak 47
Powerpoint
Tables
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PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
Ken Goldberg / Artist
No Respect
Powerpoint
Software
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If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Powerpoint
Thinking
Used
Way
Ideally
Reflect
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There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
Edward Tufte / Statistician
Long
Powerpoint
Slides
Statements
Topics
Complex
Slide
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Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.
Charles Stross / Writer
Bullshit
Powerpoint
Surface
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Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel!
Jennifer Egan / Novelist
Adept
Brag
Powerpoint
Excel
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PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
David Byrne / Musician
Another Way
Artistic
May
Powerpoint
Presentation
Use
Way
Liberate
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I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
Brie Larson / Actress
Cry
Over It
Powerpoint
Presentation
Should
Type
Versus
Crying
Screaming
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My parents wouldn't let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.
Emma Gonzalez /
Convince
Powerpoint
Presentation
Bald
Women Me Parents
Earlier
Pictures
Strategically
Shave
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I actually began my career by convincing my parents to let me be an actress when I was 12 with a PowerPoint presentation describing acting and my goals.
Sydney Sweeney /
Convincing
Describing
Powerpoint
Presentation
Began
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We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
James Gleick / Author
Busy
Overload
Powerpoint
Presentation
Link
Signal
Virus
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Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business plan - have something people can use, and go from there.
Chad Hurley / Executive
Funding
Powerpoint
Business Service People
Respond
Launch
Something People
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I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.
Safra A. Catz / Business Executive
Don't Care
Numbers
Powerpoint
Strategic
Wall
Excel
Wall Street
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte / Writer
Advice
Lines
Powerpoint
Presentation
Tools
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I'm this big believer that culture is not what you say, it's what you do. Who cares about your PowerPoint and about what you've carved into your cornerstone? If it's not being modeled, it won't be readable.
Marc Randolph /
Believer
Powerpoint
Who Cares
Big Believer
Cares
Carved
Cornerstone
Modeled
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When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
Emma Stone / Actress
Hollywood
Invited
January
Moved
Popcorn
Powerpoint
Presentation
Project
Gave
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People pitch me all the time. But hopefully, you'll just go ahead and do it. We are trying to eliminate the need for pitches. I'd rather sit there and applaud. Customers buy products, not Powerpoint presentations.
Scott Cook /
Powerpoint
Time Me People
Applaud
Eliminate
Pitches
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We have a space agency desperately in need of purpose, whose employees and capabilities have been wasted for decades on make-work projects and dead-end PowerPoint pioneering placebos designed to do nothing more than keep the billing high.
Rick Tumlinson /
Agency
Billing
Decades
Pioneering
Powerpoint
Capabilities
Designed
Employees
Wasted
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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 / Video Game Designer
Combat
Deck
Exploration
Powerpoint
Versus
Internal
Percentage
Slide
Solving
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I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.
Elizabeth Price /
Cinematic
Dense
Melodrama
Powerpoint
Forms
Complex
Genres
Intentionally
Lecture
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SERE is a classified program, but every person informed of it is 'read in' to the details of the program. Even the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which administers SERE, starts its PowerPoint presentation with a slide outlining the agency's origins.
Malcolm Nance /
Agency
Details
Outlining
Personnel
Powerpoint
Presentation
Program
Recovery
Classified
Informed
Joint
Origins
Slide
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The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.
Sherry Turkle / Professor
Education
Computers
Powerpoint
Presentation
Program
Simulation
Teach
Certainly
Critically
Medium
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I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom, and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits. I was the type of person that would show a Powerpoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
Brie Larson / Actress
Over It
Powerpoint
Presentation
Rebellious
Type
Versus
Close
Crying
Fits
Screaming
Square
Threw
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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 / Film Director
Certain
Critics
Documentaries
Done
Powerpoint
Altogether
Could
Often
Expectation
Films
Well
Perhaps
Some
Supposed
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