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The last lecture of Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams

Tuesday, October 2. 2007

A university professor gets the fatal diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer. This is the recording of his last lecture one month after he get the message, that he will have 5-6 month of good life. A really great lecture. Was really worth to invest the one and a half hour to look at it.

BTW: He had a "death bed conversion" ... he bought a mac shortly before the lecture ...

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Randy Pausch died with 47
Perhaps you remember the "Last Lecture" of Randy Pausch. I wrote about it some time ago. Randy Pausch´s battle came to it´s inevitable end: He died with 47. Here the video, that made him famous to a large audience:

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...very impressive, a must see!

#1 Michael Gottwald (Homepage) on 2007-10-02 13:44 (Reply)

Awesome! have a look --- it's worth it!

#2 Karolin Bock on 2007-10-04 20:13 (Reply)

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