“Be good at something. It makes you valuable.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (2007)

About Randy Pausch

1960 – 2008

American computer-science professor, author of "The Last Lecture".

“We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully.”

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.”

“Never lose the child-like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”