Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your healthโmore important than the environmentโmore important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.
John RobbinsAdding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.
John RobbinsIt may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.
John RobbinsEating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.
John RobbinsOur understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
John Robbins