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Randy made a surprise appearance at my commencement (CMU School of Computer Science, May 2008) just weeks before he passed away. [1] He concluded his speech with the piece of advice that has probably had the greatest impact on my career and my life:

"Please, don't think of yourself as a computer scientist who happens to be a human being. Think of yourself as a human being who happens to have the tremendous, precious, rare skills of a computer scientist--with which you can help all the other human beings."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160304152555/https://www.cs.cm...