Blogging Roller: PowerPoint is like a loaded AK-47.

PowerPoint is like a loaded AK-47.

Peter Norvig: 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.

Dave Johnson in General • 🕒 02:48PM Dec 27, 2003

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Comments:

I agree. Powerpoint doesn't kill meetings, it kills the 30 - 40 hours of productivity prior to the meeting. Time wasted on tweaking the slide animations and the background colors. It's less like an AK-47, and more like an intestinal parasite. The more effort you put in, the less productive you are. Eventually, the host, your career, dies of atrophy.

Posted by Jim Brown on January 05, 2004 at 02:40 PM EST #