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.
| Ronnie Barker, Comedian (1929) |
| Mario Diaz-Balart, Politician (1961) |
| Robert M. Gates, Politician (1943) |
| Mark Hamill, Actor (1951) |
| Felicity Kendal, Actress (1946) |
| Don Adams, Comedian (2005) |
| Billy Carter, Celebrity (1988) |
| Marvin Davis, Businessman (2004) |
| John M. Ford, Writer (2006) |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician (1777) |
| Ring Lardner, Comedian (1933) |

