A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their
demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak audiences can't help
but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last
chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch a
computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon was asked to give such a lecture he didn't have
to imagine it as his last since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the
lecture he gave--Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams--wasn't about dying. It was about the
importance of overcoming obstacles of enabling the dreams of others of seizing every moment
(because time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It
was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book
Randy Pausch has combined the humor inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a
phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to
come.
