“Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them...”

“Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them...”  This morning I stumbled across one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite Richard Feynman books (Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!):

There were a lot of fools at that conference -- pompous fools -- and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools -- guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus -- THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! And that's what I got at the conference, a bunch of pompous fools, and I got very upset.