The Last Lecture

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch Randy Pausch was a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988 to 1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He was an award-winning teacher and researcher, and worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the non-profit Alice project. (Alice is an innovative 3-D environment that teaches programming to young people via storytelling and interactive game-playing.) He also co-founded The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon with Don Marinelli. A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? Dr. Pausch delivered his "Last Lecture", titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, at CMU on September 18, 2007. His last lecture was extra-special, as it was conceived after he learned that his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal. But the lecture he gave wasn't about dying. It was 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. During the lecture, Pausch was upbeat and humorous, alternating between wisecracks, insights on computer science and engineering education, advice on building multi-disciplinary collaborations, working in groups and interacting with other people, offering inspirational life lessons, and performing push-ups on stage. His "Last Lecture" has attracted wide attention from media in the United States as well as around the world. The video of the speech became an Internet hit, and was viewed over a million times in the first month after its delivery. Randy lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 20008.

出版者:Hyperion

作者:Randy Pausch

页数:224

出版时间:2008-4-8

价格:USD 21.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781401323257

图书标签:励志RandyPausch人生传记生命信仰英文原版兰迪·波许

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was 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.

读后感

一位明星教授，执教于美国的一所著名大学，有着一位美丽的妻子和三个可爱的孩子，从事着世界上最有前景的领域的研究，很完美的生活，不是吗？除了他患了胰腺癌，只能活三至六个月了，其他也没什么不好的…… 老天就是有这样异常残酷的幽默感，当然，对于当事人来说，这样的...  

充满智慧的书。 我非常欣赏他的父亲：手风琴手，二战中经历过突出部战役的被嘉奖的老兵，负责任的丈夫，用智慧教育孩子的父亲，真心奉献的人道主义者，童心未泯收集大毛绒玩具的老人。勇气，理性，责任，人道主义，我感到这是一个完整的人。 再说Randy，他是一个有着热爱且收入...  

那么多人都经历了匹兹堡严酷的冬天而且生存下来了。 　　 　　这是卡梅(Carnegie Mellon)一年一度的狂欢节(Carnival)，平日见不到情侣的校园居然有那么多成双成对时时驻足观望的人们。Morewood Garden竖起了巨大的摩天轮、精巧的迷宫和充满尖叫声的过山车，简单到极致的...  

this book is more or less a monologue of a terminally ill cancer patient. he wanted to live but he will soon die. he wanted to leave some legacy but his time is so limited. but overall he wanted to give his life a novelty finale. So he gave a lecture, or a ...  

那么多人都经历了匹兹堡严酷的冬天而且生存下来了。 　　 　　这是卡梅(Carnegie Mellon)一年一度的狂欢节(Carnival)，平日见不到情侣的校园居然有那么多成双成对时时驻足观望的人们。Morewood Garden竖起了巨大的摩天轮、精巧的迷宫和充满尖叫声的过山车，简单到极致的...  

用户评价

2008.1.6 Brick walls let us show our dedication

experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

看过这个演讲而已,很震撼

感人至深,书的包装也不错。Randy的故事很激发人努力过好每一天

Thought-provoking on life and death. The second part is a little too personal, but understandable as this is primarily for Randy's kids.