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
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.
failing mediocre
Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
gratitude powerful simple
Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.
talking people sentences
Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.
teaching thinking way
The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.
people research labs
I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
boys advice bars
What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere." And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
smart people easy
It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.
listening important matter
The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.
lists steps helping
To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.
filing
Develop a good filing system.
patience long people
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.
beach children trying
I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured,
time-management matter commodity
Time is the only commodity that matters.