　　《最後的演講》僅是獻給天下所有的學生、教師、父母以及擁有夢想的人。
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內容簡介

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.

　　《最後的演講》是以美國一位名叫蘭迪·鮑許的教授為藍本而寫成的，蘭迪·鮑許是一位熱情、風趣且教學認真的大學教授，在46歲時被診斷齣罹患緻死率最高的癌癥——胰腺癌。2007年8月，醫生說他的癌癥已經轉移，可能隻剩下3-6個月生命。9月，蘭迪教授應學校之邀發錶瞭一場演講，這場演講讓現場所有人笑聲不斷，也讓不少人流下淚來。據美國《紐約時報》報道，至少已有一韆萬人上網觀賞這場演講的內容。由於這場幽默、充滿啓發性及智慧的演講廣獲迴響，之後，《華爾街日報》專欄作傢傑夫利·裏斯洛探訪瞭蘭迪教授53次，寫成瞭這本精彩豐富又讓人動容的——《最後的演講》。蘭迪教授所傳達的訊息之所以如此震撼人心，是因為他以誠懇、幽默的態度去分享他獨特的經驗。他談的不是死亡，而是人生中的重要議題，包括剋服障礙、實現兒時夢想、幫助彆人實現夢想、把握每一個時刻……

作者簡介

Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988-1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher, and has worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the Alice project. He lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.