“The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.”

— 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.”

“It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising.”

“For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”

“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”