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
use might selling
Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education
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.
passion use metrics
You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.
doctor great helps relish took
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
beat tried
I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.
field games knew played scoreboard walk
I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
life
There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
grow health measured months success
Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
kids
If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
entirely family time
I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
choosing dying
I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
labs miraculous people
I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.