"Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption."

“Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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“I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.”

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”

“Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.”

“It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.”

“We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.”

“Once the audience has to use themselves to cross the distance to the character, that's what's really exciting. That's when it starts to be a discussion between the art form and the audience, and that's fun stuff.”

Source : Source: collider.com