I find CD’s “fat” versus “skinny” Zen philosopher test intriguing. I wonder how true it is?

On Mahmoud’s point, I’m glad you were able to find LOS useful. Best regards, John

“Corporate managers never knew when they were going to have dinner again. It was best to gorge when they could.”

This is why it is almost impossible to “REDUCE” project scope of large projects in the corporate budget process. Everyone feels they need to get their business needs represented on as many projects as possible because you never know what the next budget cycle looks like. It becomes difficult then for managers with large budgets to say “no - we need to reduce scope” when they have budget and staff to supposedly complete a very large project. Thoughts?

To come back on the pullout quotes; they’re not only there to emphasize certain points from the text but they also serve a different purpose. People who scan the pages of an article only read the title, check out the images and might also read these pullout quotes. When used like this, they give some more indept information about the article. I often read this way and it saves me TIME also.

Looking at it from that perspective it wouldn’t be something I would get rid off that quickly. I do believe that when you format text properly with clear headers, subheaders and images that these quotes would become redundant. That’s not only about the lay-out but also the content of these elements. And as long as everybody is not equally talented in writing articles and designing lay-outs (including me), I feel reliefed when bumping into the occasional pullout quote.