We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.---Randy
Pausch 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