他──在二個月內上遍美國各大媒體，包括：the Wall Street Journal、Good
Morning America、被ABC World News選為“The Person of the Week”、CBS Evening News、和Oprah等。但他上媒體的原因，卻跟他的專業毫無關係。
"Brick walls are there for a reason.
The brick walls aren't there to keep us out.
The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things."
(牆壁擋在面前一定有一個理由，
它不是要擋住我們的去路，
而是看我們對自己要做的事情有多渴望。)
"Somebody said, 'You've become so famous for dying, what's going to
happen if you're alive in a year or two?'"(「有人說，“你因為要死了而聲名大噪，萬一你一、二年後還活著呢？”)
"I said, 'Give me the problem! I'd like to work on that one.'" (「我說，“給我這個問題！讓我來操這個心吧。”)
Randy Pausch認為人生是10%的白色，10%的黑色和80%的灰色。他說：
"You can go through life and say, 'Gee, that 80 percent gray part, that's
black, and life is a bad thing', or you can say that 80 percent graypart's
part of the white, and it's the goodness and the light. I want to view life
that way. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. That 80 percent in the
middle really can go either way, and if you decide you want to make it
go good, not bad, you have a lot more power to make that happen than
you might think."
(你可以一邊過著生活，一邊說：噢，80%的灰色，其實和黑色沒二樣，人生是痛苦的，或者你可以說，80%的灰色中有白色，其中是充滿美好和希望的。我想用這種方式來看人生，這是一種對自我實現的期許。那中間的80%，可以是黑，也可以是白，假如你想要你的人生往好的方向走，而不是壞的，你就會有超乎你想像的力量，讓它成真。)
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他的名字叫做Randy Pausch。
Randy Pausch今年46歲，除了是大學教授和三個稚齡孩童的爸爸，他同時也是個胰線癌患者。他最近的CT檢查，發現他的胰線癌已轉移到肝臟，他的肝臟裡發現有十幾個腫瘤，他的醫生在今年八月告訴他，他只有3~6個月的壽命。
