Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

这个英俊的男人，是卡耐基梅隆大学（Carnegie Mellon University）教授Randy Pausch，他即将死于癌症。2007年9月19日，他做了一场极生动的”最后一场演说”(The Last Lecture)。许多大学最近都让即将退休的教授做”最后一场演说”，但这场演说显然不同，Pausch身上的胰脏癌的状况并不乐观，医生已宣判，他只能再活几个月。“而医生上个月就已经这样说了”——他说。

Youtube.com上有一个8分钟的Randy Pausch的生平介绍（配有中文字幕）。

The Wall Street Journal的Jeff Zaslow 制作了一个Vedio Journal，题目叫“ Moving On”。

Randy Pausch说他并没有想到这场讲座竟然可以引起全球范围的关注，他的校友李开复还专门为此写了篇blog文章，向中国学生介绍这场“惊人的讲座”。Randy甚至多少觉得尴尬，在他的homepage上只是淡然地说，“我做这个讲座，只是为了我的孩子。”（I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my “Last Lecture.” … The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I’m hardly unique.）

The Last Lecture的完整版地址在这里；完整版avi视频（340M）emule下载链接在 这里。

另外，我找到Randy Pausch于2006年4月末在“50 Years of Computer Science”上的Presentation: “ Fifty Years of Computer Innovation”（可下载wmv视频，610.2M）——那个时候，他自己可能还不知道仅仅15个月之后就要做“The Last Lecture”了……

Favorite Quotations from Randy Pausch

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they’re learning something else.

… But remember, 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. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

… Jobs. And Andy said, no, don’t go do that. Go get a Ph.D. Become a professor. And I said, why? And he said, because you’re such a good salesman that any company that gets you is going to use you as a salesman. And you might as well be selling something worthwhile like education. [long pause] Thanks.

zarotea提醒的Randy Pausch关于时间管理的视频，是google video，国内可能连接不上。我在 这里找到这个视频的可下载各种格式的文件。