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

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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

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...  

readingnote for future review: ★(it's my favourite) 1.An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar. It's about dignity and self-esteem,which isn't quite the same as vanity. 2.Whatever my accomplishment, all of the things i loved were rooted ...  

readingnote for future review: ★(it's my favourite) 1.An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar. It's about dignity and self-esteem,which isn't quite the same as vanity. 2.Whatever my accomplishment, all of the things i loved were rooted ...  

自己人生的第2个本命年2008注定是个可以铭记一辈子的年份，原本我以为它就这么平静的流走了，但是它却曾带给我希望，让我感到无比快乐。而在现实中，在它要过去的最后几天，它却给我上了深刻的一课，深刻得让我不可能去忘记，深刻得让我曾丢掉了一直以来的信仰与支柱，深刻得让...  

用户评价

很久没上来果然很。。。 这书买的我肠子青 贵啊~

2008.1.6 Brick walls let us show our dedication

有助于更好地生活，更坦然地看待生老病死

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

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. "Randy萌萌哒~