Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.
My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.
It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.