Loved the lecture! Thanks so much, anjumh.

It's a 77-min video on youtube  so it might take a while to download, but I suggest letting it buffer for as long as it takes to download it, and then watch it uninterrupted. (Took me 2 hours or so on my broadband connection).

I've been meaning to take Alice for a whirl for a while now - I even downloaded it on a couple of machines quite some time ago...

Now I have fresh inspiration :)

Inspiring lecture!! Loved it, took home lots from it, very thought provoking for  those in the teaching profession. What a man!! Truly worth praise..

Randy Pausch passed away a few hours ago...http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/reviews/critics/la-me-pausch26-2008jul26,0,5191339.story

My favorite lines from his famous "last lecture" - 

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people.

R.I.P. Randy Pausch.

Sad, but I guess it was imminent - which is what made the 'last lecture' sofamous, right?

Came across (on the same page that Shuchi linked above) a nice piece of the special quality of works producedby someone close to death (like the last lecturewas) - On death's edge, words full of life.

Like I said in my earlier comment, I learnt a lot from this lecture. And I have viewed it several times. Sad about his death. We knew it, the world rather knew that he would not survive for long. Just a message I take, that we are all mortals, we must make our lives as fruitful as we can, and that there is no substitute to hard work, also that HONESTY wins over being hip- any day. Randy has immortalised himself through the lecture that he gave.