Breathes there a speaker with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, As he hears his name from the podium read, I wish to hell I stayed in bed!” “First slide, please.” The hall lights dimmed, the audience hushed, and the speaker launched into his paper – the culmination of 15 years of painstaking research. An important talk, it included everything he knew on the subject. Flitting from point to point, he realized that he was running out of time and read the paper even faster. He didn’t have much time to dwell on his complicated slides, which.
