Juan Enriquez Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Source: bigthink.com

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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

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that was enough to transmit how you hunt, how you eat, how you cook, how you dress, and we can read about that.

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  Wall, Neanderthals, Dresses

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.

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  Country, Powerful, Simple

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.

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  Jobs, Fun, Urban Development

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

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  India, Excess, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

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  Real, Math, White

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

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  Ecosystems, Looks, Biosphere

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important if other parts of the country are going to want to create these tech centers.

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  Country, Jobs, Important

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

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• Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.

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  Jobs, Technology, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

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  Important, Doe, Empires

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.

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  Real, People, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska.

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  Stars, Alaska, Two

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.

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  Country, Curious, Disappear

  Source: bigthink.com

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• As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

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  Years, Fundamentals, Next

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There has to be some more regulation. But our kids have this incredible buffet of they can work in genomics, they can work in pre-omics, or they can work in robotics, or they can work in this, or they can work in that. And within the next five years there will be entirely new industries that come out of nowhere that kids are working in that would have been inconceivable when they started college. Not when we started college.

  Juan Enriquez

  Kids, College, Years

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

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• If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.

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  Book, People, Burning

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.

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  New York, Artist, Doctors

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

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• If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.

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  Soccer, Latin, Technology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this planet is coded in a double helix with a sugar phosphate backbone. And that codes whether you become a bacteria, an orange, a lemon, a Lemur, a Cow, a sheep, a human being, a politician, any one of these things is all coded in this four-letter code.

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  Orange, Sheep, Bacteria

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.

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  Photography, Fashion, Communication

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We're beginning to enter an era where it gets really cheap and really fast to begin to do things like make fuels, and make textiles, and make extra teeth for ourselves. And we're beginning to think about how we regrow our bladders.

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  Thinking, Teeth, Textiles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.

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  Running, Beach, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

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  Country, Powerful, Technology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

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  Country, Ghana, Digital Revolution

  Source: bigthink.com

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