Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

We talk a lot about building benevolent technology. Our technology reflects our values.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.

If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Only dreams give birth to change.