Juan Enriquez Quotes

• The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

  Juan Enríquez

  Curiosity, Desire, Awake

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

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  Technology, India, Revolution

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

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  Creativity, Energy, Sitting

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.

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  Jobs, Venture, Reason Why

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

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  Memories, Technology, Able

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• I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

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  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

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  Technology, House, Age

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• It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

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  Mean, Missing, Historical

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.

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  Stars, Years, President

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.

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  Mean, Vaccines, Eggs

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a lot of hype about life sciences, around the sequencing of the human genome and a lot of people concluded that's not really there. But by the way, there was a lot of hype around the digital revolution just about the time of 2000 and the human genome, and it turns out that some of the world's biggest, most powerful companies are the survivors post that crash.

  Juan Enríquez

  Powerful, Hype, Digital Revolution

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

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  Opportunity, Curious, Extraordinary

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

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  Writing, Differences, People

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• One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.

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  Latin, America, Worry

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.

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  Years, Important, Littles

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.

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  New York, Cities, Energy

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

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  People, Lessons, Financial

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• Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.

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  Cities, Energy, Today

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

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  Fashion, New York, Real

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

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  Men, Different, Green

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• It's not fear that keeps me up. I mean, every generation has thought, this is the worst generation; the world's going to hell in a hand basket. The reality is, people are living longer, and they're living better.

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  Mean, Reality, Hands

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• It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

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  Writing, Able, Economy

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• As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

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  Country, Successful, Ethnicity

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• La definición de quién sabe leer y quién no cambia constantemente. Así, en tiempos de los neandertales, si se pintaba en la pared de una cueva, eso bastaba para transmitir cómo se cazaba, cómo se comía, cómo se cocinaba, cómo se vestía, y podemos leer sobre ello.

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  Wall, Neanderthals, Dresses

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