Juan Enriquez famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Memories #Technology #Able
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Technology #House #Age
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Motivation #Moving #Inspiration
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Motivation #Inspiration #Years
The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Curiosity #Desire #Awake
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Technology #India #Revolution
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Creativity #Energy #Sitting
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Jobs #Venture #Reason Why
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Mean #Missing #Historical
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Stars #Years #President
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Mean #Vaccines #Eggs
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 Enriquez

#Powerful #Hype #Digital Revolution
There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Opportunity #Curious #Extraordinary
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
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
If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Jobs #Real #Paper
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Writing #Able #Economy
Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Two #Trying #Digital
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
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Mean #Reality #Hands
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Country #Successful #Ethnicity
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Wall #Neanderthals #Dresses
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#India #Excess #World
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.
-- Juan Enriquez

#Powerful #Reading #Writing

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