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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As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

作为父母,我们需要把孩子送回“老式”的户外夏令营,随着对体育和学术性夏令营的需求上升,户外夏令营的数量一直在下降。我们需要反对削减公共公园项目的预算,反对关闭公共游泳池和游乐场。

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

这就是为什么我们要这么做,稍微维护一下我们的传统。我不反对万圣节,但这不是我们的传统。

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

没有传统,艺术就像一群羊没有牧人。没有创新,它就是一具尸体。

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

有些人在睡梦中说话。当别人睡觉时,老师们却在讲话。

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer

我父亲是个学者,是个怪人。他是一位讲师