The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

"Last Lecture" is traditionally a writing/talk given by Professors imagining their own demise and thinking on what would be the most important things they would like to touch on, in the little time thay had in hand. For Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, The Last Lecture was not a matter of just wild imagination as just recently he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

In The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch didnot talk about dying but about "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch