“It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.”

— Randy Pausch, CMU Graduation speech (2008)

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.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.”