The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something, because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University 'The Last Lecture' 2007, 2007
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This became the most quoted line from what is arguably the most famous lecture in internet history. Pausch delivered 'The Last Lecture' at Carnegie Mellon while dying of pancreatic cancer — he had 10 tumors in his liver and had been given three to six months to live. The lecture series was originally called 'The Last Lecture' (what would you say if it was your last?), and Pausch joked darkly, 'I finally nailed the venue, and they renamed it.' The brick wall metaphor emerged from Pausch's childhood dream of being a Disney Imagineer. He applied and was rejected. He tried again through different channels. Each rejection was a brick wall, but each one filtered out people who didn't want it as badly. Eventually he got a sabbatical at Disney and worked on a virtual reality project. The metaphor resonated because Pausch wasn't speaking abstractly — he was a man facing the ultimate brick wall, and he was choosing to see it as one more chance to show how badly he wanted to live well.
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