Professor Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”
If you can spare the time, watch the video in its entirety. The video is an hour and 40 minutes long, but is most definitely the best lecture/speech you have ever heard.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
Over a million people have viewed the lecture online.
The Wall Street Journal calls it “the lecture of a lifetime“,
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119024238402033039.html
For those who don’t know (or haven’t yet gone through the links above), Professor Randy Pausch’s was until recently a Computer Science Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University. Last month, on Sept 18, he gave his “last lecture”. He has pancreatic cancer and expects to live for just a few more months.