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

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Juan Enriquez
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 1
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Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.
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The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
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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.
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Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.
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There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.
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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.
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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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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.
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When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful. And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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