Randy Pausch

"What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:”tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone".

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

When told by a female colleague about how a girl can pick the right guy, she said . . . "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."

There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart.

In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice — and about the power of humility

I'm dying and I'm having fun.

"Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)

Ljudi lažu zbog mnoštva razloga, najčešće zato jer im se čini da će na taj način uz manje napora dobiti ono što žele. No kao i mnoge strategije na kratke staze, ova je potpuno nedjelotvorna na duge staze. Kasnije ćete naići na iste osobe, a one će se prisjetiti da ste im jednom lagali. Ispričat će i drugima o tome. Upravo to me čudi kod laganja. Mnogi lašci misle da su se lako provukli, a zapravo nisu.

"Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs. And right then, I had the feeling that I had more in me, that if I gave it my all, I might be able to offer people something special. "Wisdom" is a strong word, but maybe that was it."

Junior faculty members used to come up to me and say. "Wow, you got tenure early; what's your secret?" I said, "It's pretty simple, call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock and I'll tell you."

Everything you do is an opportunity cost. Learn to say “No”

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.