Intelligence itself fascinates me. If I'm curious about anything in life, it's the reason behind our ability to think and reason, to acquire and apply knowledge.

Our intelligence benefits us, as a whole, very much, but what does it give to each of us personally? One grim viewpoint is that it gives us the understanding that we will die and be forgotten. It gives us enough so that we suffer inside. It doesn't give us any knowledge of what might come after death. It gives us such capacity for thought when so much of it is useless.

I wouldn't rather be a mindless animal, but I wish we had more. It doesn't seem fair.

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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless. -- Henry Kissinger