Michael Stern
Michael Stern
Michael Sternwas an American reporter, author and philanthropist. As a reporter during World War II he issued some of the first accounts from a liberated Rome, Italy in June 1944. He later worked in concert with Zachary Fisher to create the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City, New York, United States...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 August 1910
next firsts directors
As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
jobs frustration technology
It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.
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Steve Jobes called anybody. He was fearless. When he was very young, he had no filter. He would call the president of Hewlett-Packard and the head of Atari and say, 'I'm Steve Jobs.' He just didn't take no for an answer.
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The fact is these great places are endangered. But they're not extinct. I think over the years, one of the things that we have seen is that we Americans have come to appreciate that kind of food as part of who we are in a way that we never did before.
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When we left, we were blessed with these tremendous appetites. We kept looking for a great book that would tell us where to eat. We couldn't find one. So eventually we wrote 'Road Food,' which is how this all began.