Juan Enriquez Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Juan Enriquez

  New York, Cities, Energy

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

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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.

  Juan Enriquez

  Years, Important, Littles

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

  Juan Enriquez

  People, Lessons, Financial

  Source: bigthink.com

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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

  Source: 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.

  Juan Enriquez

  Fashion, New York, Real

  Source: bigthink.com

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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

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

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  Two, Trying, Digital

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

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  Powerful, Reading, Writing

  Source: bigthink.com

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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

  Source: 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.

  Juan Enriquez

  Men, Different, Green

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

  Juan Enriquez

  Soccer, Latin, Technology

  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.

  Juan Enriquez

  New York, Artist, Doctors

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

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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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• 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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• It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

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  Country, People, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.

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  Thinking, India, Would Be

  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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• The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

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  Borders, Lasts, Panama

  Source: bigthink.com

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• During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.

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  Talking, Southern Italy, Scotland

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We have to get serious about living within our means.

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  Mean, Serious

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or you go and you tour Afghanistan, or India, or whatever. Governments get to a point where they're illegitimate because people just give up on them as far as being leaders who have their country's interests at heart.

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  Country, Giving Up, Heart

  Source: bigthink.com

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