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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.
Juan Enriquez
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Juan Enriquez
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 1
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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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Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.
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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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The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.
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Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.
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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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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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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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The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.
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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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The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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