This collection of quotes will give great advice to anyone developing a presentation that wants to use PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, or any other slideware.
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Great Advice for Using 際際滷ware
1. PowerPoint may not be of any use for you
in a presentation, but it may liberate you
in another way, an artistic way.
David Byrne
Lead Singer, Talking Heads
242 [painting lady] by eblaser is licensed under CC BY 2.0
2. Make slides that reinforce your words,
not repeat them.
Seth Godin, Marketing Guru
3. People can only process one
inbound message at a time.
They will either listen to you
or read your slides;
they cannot do both.
Nancy Duarte, Author Resonate
Photo by Kevan Davis, via Flickr
10. Your goal is to
move away from projecting a document
and toward giving a presentation.
Nancy Duarte, Author, Resonate
11. Attempting to have slides serve both as projected
visuals and as stand-alone handouts makes for bad
visuals and bad documentation.
Garr Reynolds, Author Presentation Zen
12. Hear a piece of information, and three days
later you'll remember 10% of it.
Add a picture and you'll remember 65%.
John Medina, Neuroscientist
13. [Presentation technologies] are only
useful to the degree that they make
things clearer and more memorable.
Garr Reynolds,
Author Presentation Zen
14. PowerPoint doesnt kill meetings.
People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is
like having a loaded AK-47on the table: You
can do very bad things with it.
Peter Norvig,
Google Director of Research
15. Simplify the slides so the audience can
process each one in under !
three seconds. !
Nancy Duarte, Author Resonate
16. 際際滷ware is not meant for your
speaker notes. Its just not.!
David Christianson, Normal Guy
17. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci, Real Renaissance Man
18. We learn and remember
best through pictures,!
not through written or
spoken words!
John Medina, Neuroscientist