我在www.thelastlecture.com上看到如下一段文字：
On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.
Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. And now, in his book based on the now-famous lecture, Randy goes even deeper to inspire us all.
(Randy Pausch is a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988 to 1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher, and has worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the non-profit Alice project. (Alice is an innovative 3-D environment that teaches programming to young people via storytelling and interactive game-playing.) He also co-founded The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon with Don Marinelli. (ETC is the premier professional graduate program for interactive entertainment as it is applies across a variety of fields.) He lives in Virginia with his wife and three children. )
Randy是美国精英中的一员，但是由于他身患绝症，将不久于人世。他到处演讲他是如何努力实现他少儿时的梦想。有兴趣的话，请看看，不单可以提高你的英语能力，也可以了解一下美国的Randy与俄国的“保尔”和中国的…是不是没有什么区别？
精英并非是名人，而是那些非常努力，又有责任感（大多是教育培养出来的）的英才；各类一流学者和一流专业人士。中国的精英正在逐步形成，但是，他们的人数和素质与世界强国还有很大的距离。就是中国过去30年派出去的留学生加起来也难与美国的精英相提并论。因为过去我们的留学生过分集中在技术类领域，社会与人文方面涉及的人太少。看来中国的年青人任重而道远，需要在更广泛的领域，更早地与世界精英融合在一起。
