“Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.”– Clifford D. Simak Related Quotes “Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”– J. K. Rowling “When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early ’90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn’t want to, because they had no pilots.”– Robert M. Gates “Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam – whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.”– Janis Karpinski