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Edward Tufte

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

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Edward Tufte is criticizing PowerPoint by suggesting it encourages the same boring and ineffective style as traditional overhead projector slides. He implies that if someone enjoys the limitations and dullness of overheads, they will find PowerPoint similarly unsatisfactory.

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