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    Randy Pausch: Straight From The Heart
    Randy Pausch: Straight From The Heart
    Randy Pausch: Straight From The Heart
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    Randy Pausch: Straight From The Heart

    By Shil Mitra

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    Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor with terminal cancer touched millions of lives via his hour-long life-affirming speech, "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," at CMU, Pittsburg, just weeks after doctors told him he had a few months to live.

    Randy Pausch: Straight from the Heart, is a memorable collection of over 175 quotes assimilated from various sources, including Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, given at Carnegie Mellon University, Randy Pausch – Time Management Lecture given at the University of Virginia, Randy Pausch’s Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008 and media coverage.

    This book is a compilation of Professor Randy Pausch’s simple life lessons, and how he made millions of people rethink life by telling it the way it really is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShil Mitra
    Release dateAug 28, 2012
    ISBN9781476064260
    Randy Pausch: Straight From The Heart
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    Shil Mitra

    Shil Mitra is a freelance writer and an avid blogger.

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      Randy Pausch - Shil Mitra

      Preface

      Randy Pausch (1960 – 2008), a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006. In August 2007, he was told he had 3 to 6 months of good health left.

      On 18 September 2007, the world came to a standstill and watched spellbound when Randy Pausch, delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture called Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams – a few months before he died of pancreatic cancer, aged 47.

      This terminally ill professor’s last goodbye became an overnight Internet sensation, and touched millions of lives in a way that was unthinkable.

      Randy Pausch: Straight from the Heart, is a memorable collection of over 175 quotes assimilated from various sources, including Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, given at Carnegie Mellon University, Randy Pausch – Time Management Lecture given at the University of Virginia, Randy Pausch’s Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008 and media coverage.

      This book is a compilation of Professor Randy Pausch’s simple life lessons, and how he made millions of people rethink life by telling it the way it really is.

      * A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

      * Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

      * All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.

      * All right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer, because I spent a lot of time talking about that and I’m really not interested. If you have any herbal supplements or remedies, please stay away from me.

      * All universities ought to do a better job of encouraging students to take courses outside of their major. Dreams come from broadening your horizons and rubbing elbows with different kinds of people.

      * An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

      * And all good things come to an end.

      * And all I have to say is that having been selected to be an author in the World Book Encyclopedia, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias. They let me in.

      * And anybody who is out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedroom, as a favor to me let them do it. It’ll be OK. Don’t worry about resale value on the house.

      * And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

      * And Coach Graham said, right, how many men are on a football field at a time? Eleven on a team, twenty-two. Coach Graham said, all right, and how many people are touching the football at any given time? One of them. And he said, right, so we’re going to work on what those other twenty-one guys are doing. And that’s a really good story because it’s all about fundamentals. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

      *And he (Andy Van Dam) put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life.

      * And I basically became a day-a-week consultant for Imagineering, and I did that for about ten years. And that’s one of the reasons you should all become professors. Because you can have your cake and eat it too.

      * And I dashed off my letters of applications to Walt Disney Imagineering, and they sent me some of the damned nicest go-to-hell letters I have ever gotten. I mean it was just, we have carefully reviewed your application and presently we do not have any positions available which require your particular qualifications. Now think about the fact that you’re getting this from a place that’s famous for guys who sweep the street.

      * And I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy. I mean that’s a tremendous gift.

      * And remember, your boss wants a result, not an excuse.

      * And that is the best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

      * And the other thing about football is we send our kids out to

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