Python motivation

This is a rough version of motivational slides for python - based on @sritchie73's R motivational slides.
Idea is that they would be presented at the beginning of a python lecture. Thoughts?
I know what you're saying here, and it's excellent that you want to be sure that totally new folks feel comfortable. 

However, I am always a little bothered by sentences that draw people out for their lack of knowledge ("For those of you who *don't* know JARGON... "  has the ring of "How many of you have never heard of JARGON?")

I wonder if we could achieve the same thing without the "for those of you who have never encountered Python before".

Maybe, simply, "So what is Python anyway? Python is a programming language which is used to:"