Thought for the Day
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt,
just how we play the hand.”
~ Randy Pausch
(1960-2008)
*Randolph Frederick “Randy” Pausch
Born: October 23, 1960 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died: July 25, 2008 (age 47) Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
An American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal diagnosis: “3 to 6 months of good health left”. He gave an upbeat lecture titled “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” on September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon, which became a popular YouTube video and led to other media appearances. He then co-authored a book called The Last Lecture on the same theme, which became a New York Times best-seller.
Pausch died of complications from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008.
*Source | More | The “Last Lecture”
