[D]eath, a necessary end,/Will come when it will come.

Via the_gneech, crisper, goblinpaladin, and active_apathy (I steal the post outright from the last):

"I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else." (Source)

Ernest Gary Gygax, 1938-2008

(And, for the terminally irreverent among you: Penny Arcade, The Ferret's list.)