“I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.” Quote by Juan Enriquez
“Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.” YearsTodayThreeSittingYears AgoOddBordersQuartersFlagsAnthem Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” KindLongCountryTurnsAsksAbilitySuccessfulDisappearAll KindsGeographyVariablesEthnicityAbility To Adapt Author:Juan Enriquez
“The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.” PeopleWritingDifferences Author:Juan Enriquez
“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
“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.” HumansFormProcessHuman BeingsFourPlanetsPoliticianLettersCodeSugarCowsSheepOrangeShiftingLemonsBackboneBacteria Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” YearsNextEconomyFundamentalsCodeDigitalDriversGlobal Economy Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” PeopleWorldWayHumansTurnsPowerfulCompanyRevolutionLatePostsToo LateDigitalMost PowerfulSurvivorCrashHypeGenomeDigital RevolutionSequencing Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” WritingReadingPowerfulCompanyBoysPeriodsCodeCopiesVery PowerfulCloningReading Life Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” PeopleMeanLightNamesFashionTelevisionCommunicationComputerPhotographyFlowRadioDepartmentTelephonesGigsMicrophonesNerdyMicrowavesFashion Photography 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