Randy Pausch Last Quotations

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

Focus on other people, not on yourself.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

People are more important than things.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.