The last lecture

Considering that I lived in Pittsburgh until early 2008, shame on me that I just watched this lecture yesterday :).

Randy Pausch is a 47 years old computer science professor in Carnegie Mellon University who is diagnosed with a terminal pancreatic cancer. Last year (September 2007 if I am not mistaken) doctors predict that he would have three to six months healthy live, and after that everything can't be predicted. He is also a father of three kids, with the eldest is 5 years old.

He gave a lecture called "The Last Lecture" to say goodbye to his fellows and friends. The video was put in the internet at the first time just to share among those who can't attend that lecture, but since then, it's been downloaded more than 1 million times! What's so special about his lecture?

No, it's not about dying as you might think. It's far from being the second of "Tuesdays with Morrie". Instead, it's about his childhood dreams and about enabling others to achieve their childhood dreams. Simple crazy dreams like being in zero gravity, winning stuffed animals, and playing in NFL.

Fellow readers, if you a dreamer, you might enjoy this course as much as I do. Even if you're not, you might still enjoy this video because who doesn't have childhood dreams ?

All righty, not to waste your time, I'll just add my favorite quotes from his lecture.

The brick wall is there for a purpose. It's there to test us how bad we want something. It's to keep others that do not want it that badly, not for us ;)