"For I have even told him back then at breakfast, 'You, 
professor, be it thy will or not, made up something really 
strange.  It may be smart, but it's way too complicated.  
Everyone will laugh at you.'"

This is a quote in my own translation from Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". I think it's just too sad that all too often it happens in the real life, everyone dismisses a smart idea simply because they can't understand it.