I admit that I have a bias against PowerPoint. I've sat through too many presentations at conferences where a potentially interesting presenter just read bullet points to the audience from PowerPoint slides. It drives me crazy, which is why I try to do all my presentations equipment free.
So it's not surprising this is my favorite passage from Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs.
One of the first things (Steve) Jobs did during the product review process was ban PowerPoints. ‘I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking,’ Jobs later recalled. ‘People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.’”