Emma Stone:

I made a PowerPoint presentation for my parents when I was 14. I asked them to let me move to L.A.

Steve Coll:

When I asked, in a skeptical tone, about this passionate use of PowerPoint, General Petraeus responded in the staccato of the medium: "It's how you communicate big ideas -- to communicate them effectively."

Verlyn Klinkenborg:

As for those poor people trapped in PowerPoint presentations -- well, for them there is no help.

Peter Norvig:

Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Stephen Caldwell and Laurel Tripp

Bullet-point people traffic in the meaningless business-speak of the management consultant, language that eschews equally the nuance and hard numbers of reality.

Ken Armstrong:

At least 10 times in the last two years, US courts have reversed a criminal conviction because prosecutors violated the rules of fair argument with PowerPoint.