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it's true a few tears well up when reading poignant musings about the quality of his limited time left here, never is there self-pity or remorse.

The book may leave the reader feeling melancholy, but not sorry for Randy, because he has filled his life with love and laughter, family and career. If we are sorry for anyone, it may be ourselves, as we struggle to live life with a fraction of the meaning he has found, yet we have so much more time left to live it, or so we assume.

Read his book or watch his lecture for whatever reason you want. The final truths that he reveals are gut wrenching in honesty. We find ourselves at the last, a receiver of a double head fake, a lesson taught to us when we weren't even watching.

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http://download.srv.cs. cmu.edu/~pausch/

As Randy's professional legacy, he is leaving us with Alice, a Carnegie Mellon software teaching tool that allows kids to create animations for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or making a video. All while they are actually learning computer programming. (Did you catch the head fake?) The program appeals to both boys and girls and is available for free download at:
www.alice.org.

"It's not about achievement it's about living."

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