There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

  • -- Randy Pausch 兰迪·波许

有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设,如果你知道自己就要死了,而你还有最后一堂课,你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说,房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象,对我来说,这不是假设。

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Brilliant lecturers shouldn’t be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear on TV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don’t leave out the poor.

优秀的演讲者不应该浪费在教室里:他们应该出现在电视上。我们需要黑市大学,在那里人们互相帮助,不把穷人排除在外。

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

当我讲课时,我接受人们看表,但我不能容忍的是,当他们看表时,把表举到耳边,看表是否停了。

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

女孩在学业上更有力量。他们给学生打分,他们组织学生活动,他们是告别演说者。

How to respect tradition and to innovate at the same time? What a difficult challenge!

如何在尊重传统的同时创新?多么困难的挑战啊!

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

传统是向导,而不是狱卒。

War is not an academic exercise.

战争不是学术活动。