JM
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
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How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Randy Pausch
Professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my "Last Lecture." I am told that, including abridged versions, over six million people have viewed the lecture online. The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I'm hardly unique. Send your kids to Carnegie Mellon and the other professors here will teach them valuable life lessons long after I'm gone.
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Pausch's Carnegie Mellon faculty homepage, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, 2008
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Meghan Trainor
American singer-songwriter
She was a fun, silly girl who wrote positive songs that helped others – and she was a good mama.
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Actor and playwright
As someone who cared about others.
As a nice person who did all she could to make a positive change in the world.
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The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
A baseball pitcher.
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
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