Juan Enriquez Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

We have to get serious about living within our means.

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.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.