Juan Enriquez
Juan Enriquez
Juan Enríquez Cabot is a Mexican-American academic, businessman, and speaker. He is Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, and is a best-selling author...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionEducator
CountryMexico
excess world asia
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.
agree behind people society sure system understand
We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.
budget department energy genome good health human legal national project public social spent
One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.
deliberate direct species takes
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.
manipulate people
If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.
gene humans
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.
business commodity gotten hard knowledge margin mistakes oil
The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.
years flags sitting
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
real people way
Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.
important empires lasts
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.
country giving-up heart
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.
mean serious
We have to get serious about living within our means.
thinking able asia
Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.
men green revolution
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.