I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.