Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor with terminal cancer touched millions of lives via his hour-long life-affirming speech, "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," at CMU, Pittsburg, just weeks after doctors told him he had a few months to live. Randy Pausch: Straight from the Heart, is a memorable collection of over 175 quotes assimilated from various sources, including Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, given at Carnegie Mellon University, Randy Pausch – Time Management Lecture given at the University of Virginia, Randy Pausch's Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008 and media coverage. This book is a compilation of Professor Randy Pausch's simple life lessons, and how he made millions of people rethink life by telling it the way it really is.