Jun 24 2007
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“ a lot of people in business have given up writing the documents. They just write the presentations, which are summaries without the detail, without the backup. A lot of people don’t like the intellectual rigor of actually doing the work.
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Creator of PowerPoint, Robert Gaskins in a WSJ interview - Portals - WSJ.com (won’t be there for long, saved it as a PDF for future, ahem, reference)
Another choice quote (preceding the above paragraph):
“…(creator of PowerPoint) Gaskins reminds his questioner that a PowerPoint presentation was never supposed to be the entire proposal, just a quick summary of something longer and better thought out. He cites as an example his original business plan for the program: 53 densely argued pages long. The dozen or so slides that accompanied it were but the highlights.”
