Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch
Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pauschwas an American professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon Universityin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth23 October 1950
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
apology failing
Apologies are not pass/fail.
doe complaining strategy
Complaining does not work as a strategy.
business smart team
I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.
helpful tomorrow ifs
It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai
fundamentals fancy stuff
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
giving people use
Get a feedback loop and listen to it... When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
home blessing use
To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.
book self people
Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
gratitude powerful simple
Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.
failing mediocre
Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
long hips last-lecture
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.
worst-case-scenario risk management
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.
inspirational giving-up passion
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
listening important matter
The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.