He's an interesting, very intelligent person, but his expression/face is ugly as hell, mostly due to his illness, of course. There is one upside I see: how many people have a practical reason to wear a mask like a super hero/villain? One possibility is Darth Vader with a James Earl Jones voice machine, though probably just occasionally for giggles.
No replies... oh, you guys are boring. A famous person having a non-ironic reason to wear a cool mask, if not an entire compliment outfit along with it, isn't interesting? Darth Hawking? Dunn dun dun dunnn nenenene