“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.” IfsEnoughWallDressesDefinitionsCooksCavesHuntsTransmitNeanderthals Author:Juan Enriquez
“Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.” IfsTryingTwoHardHoursCodeAwakeDigital Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” IfsYearsEndsBodyRunningKidsQualityImagineHigherSurpriseBeachFloridaQuality Of LifeSurprise Me Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” IfsMenDifferentRevolutionDiedGreenStatuesDifferent PlaceWandsGreen Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” IfsWorldTodayAmericaBrainTechnologyFiveFocusPlayerConsequenceScientistCupsSoccerChampionLatinMexicanKoreaLatin AmericaBrazilInputWorld CupScience And TechnologySoccer Player Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” IfsWantImportantCountryJobsCertainWealthShareCodePatentsZips Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” IfsRealSometimesEnoughJobsWealthDependsIndustryPaperEfficientShufflingReal Wealth Author:Juan Enriquez
“There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.” IfsOpportunityExtraordinaryCurious Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldStillsBookStuffViolenceStreetsFrontsMurderIncrediblesHorribleBurningSeatsRenaissance Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” IfsKnowsYearsHumansEndsInspirationMotivationDifferencesIdenticalYear End Author:Juan Enriquez