Quotes from Juan Enriquez

We are transitioning from a hominid that is conscious of its environment into one that drastically shapes its own evolution.

if Darwin were alive today, he would likely revise a significant part of his great works, because the basic logic of evolution has shifted away from capital-n Nature toward two new core drivers: Unnatural selection* Nonrandom mutation*

twenty-three chromosomes lie 3.2 billion ATCGs. All of this code equals one human genome, which you could print out in a very boring 6.4-million-page book. A strand of DNA is so thin (two molecules across) that if all of the chromosomes in a single cell were stretched

Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x faster than at any other time in our species history.121

We are in an age of exponentially changing technologies. Ergo, we are in an age of exponentially changing ethics.

some core ethical-spiritual notions are passed on, evolve, and are repackaged and transmuted. Gradually a series of legitimate core concepts spread globally. So we see a gradual convergence on a set of principles common to major religions, and common to nonbelievers.

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

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.

New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

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.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

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.