Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.pdf

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Given at Carnegie Mellon University Tuesday, September 18, 2007 McConomy Auditorium For more information, see © Copyright Randy Pausch, 20071 Note that this transcript is provided as a public service but may contain transcription errors. This translation was done by Lichao Chen (chenlc03@); I don’t read Chinese, so I cannot verify it. – Randy This translation is far from perfect and I presented it in the sprit of old Chinese saying ‘throwing a brick to attract jade.’ Any comments, suggestions and corrections are highly appreciated. Lichao 译文可能有诸多不当,疏漏之处。但抛砖引玉, 望读者不悋指正。 兰迪.波许的最后讲座:真正实现你童年的梦想 2007 年 9 月 18 日,星期二, 于卡内基.梅隆大学 Introduction by Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon’s Vice Provost for Education: 卡内基.梅隆大学副教务长英迪拉.内尔 Hi. Welcome. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the first of our new university’s lectures titled Journeys – lectures in which members of our community will share with us reflections and insights on their personal and professional journeys. Today’s Journey’s lecture as you all know is by Professor Randy Pausch. The next one is on Monday, September 24th by Professor Roberta Klatzky. 嗨。欢迎大家。我很高兴向大家介绍我们大学的题为旅途的新系列讲座的首场演讲- 这些演讲 是我们的社团成员与我们一起分享他们对个人和专业旅途的思考和洞察。今天旅途演讲的主 讲人,你们都知道,是兰迪.波许教授。下一个是 9 月 24 日,星期一,罗伯塔.克莱兹基教授。 1 This is temporary; we will be doing a creative commons license or some such; for now, please consider this footnote your permission to use this transcript for any personal or non-commercial purposes. -- Randy P a u s c h P a g e | 2 To introduce Professor Randy Pausch, our first Journeys speaker, I would like to introduce Randy’s friend and colleague, Steve Seabolt. Steve has been at Electronic Arts for six years and is the Vice President of Global Brand Development for The Sims label at Electronic Arts. As you all know, The Sims is one of the most, if not the most successful PC games i