The Last Lecture (2008) [by Randy Pausch, Hardcover]

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon delivered his "Last Lecture" titled "Really Achiev... more

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon delivered his "Last Lecture" titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" at CMU on September 18, 2007. He did not think that it would be his last since he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. In "The Last Lecture" , Randy Pausch has pooled intelligence, inspiration, hope and humor that made his lecture marvelously exceptional and given it an indelible form. His lecture was not about dying but how to overcome obstacles and siezing every moment. It was the summation of everything what Randy had learned and believed in. It was about life. The Breakdown Computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." With slides ... less