PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose ‘last lecture’ about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday, July 25, 2008. He was 47.
With equal parts humor and heart, he delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that moved an overflow crowd at the university and went on to move audiences around the globe.
‘We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.’
A good friend shared this story with me, hence I share it with you.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
“I mean, the metaphor I’ve used is … somebody’s going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won’t be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.”[/quote]
ive got a bit of a short attention span, so the fact that i could sit and watch a 4 inch video on youtube says quite a bit about what this man had to say.
Yeah, I remember hearing about him earlier. I think I watched a 10 minute video of him on Oprah on youtube, and it was an absolutely amazing video.
I’m most definitly going to watch the hour long one tommorow when I have the time. What he said in 10 minutes stuck with me, I’m excited for what he’ll say with the rest of his time.
Sad to hear that he went, but I, as well as millions of other people, I’m sure, are glad he said what he did before he went.
“I mean, the metaphor I’ve used is … somebody’s going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won’t be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.”
