“When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.”

— 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.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“The instructions of an old man are precious.”

“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”