Randy Pausch - Quodid

About

Randolph Frederick Pausch () (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Quotes from Randy Pausch

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

—Randy Pausch

advice

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.

—Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture

love

When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

—Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture

It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.

—Randy Pausch

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

—Randy Pausch

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

—Randy Pausch

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

—Randy Pausch

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

—Randy Pausch

Books

Randy Pausch has the following books quoted on Quodid:

The Last Lecture