This sounds more like something pulled off of a chain-email than anything
else...not that it doesn't have a point...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael J. Schweppe [mailto:michael@schweppe.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:43 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Off Topic: Whether you like Bill Gates or not
> 
> 
> I do not know if Gates actually authored these rules or not, but I
> thought these were poignant and wanted to pass them on.
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----------
> 
> Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a  high school
> speech
> about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks  about how
> feel-good;
> politically correct teaching has created a full generation of kids
> with no
> concept of reality and how this concept sets them up for failure in
> the real
> world.
> 
>  RULE 1
>  Life is not  fair - get used to it.
> 
>  RULE 2
>  The world won't care about your  self-esteem. The
>  world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE
>  you feel good about yourself.
> 
>  RULE 3
>  You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year
>  right out of high school. You won't be a vice
>  president with a car phone, until you earn both.
> 
>  RULE 4
>  If you  think your teacher is tough; wait till
>  you get a boss. He doesn't have  tenure.
> 
>  RULE 5
>  Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
>  Your grandparents had a different word for burger
>  flipping - they  called it Opportunity.
> 
>  RULE 6
>  If you mess up, it's not your  parents' fault, so
>  don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
> 
>  RULE 7
>  Before you were born, your parents weren't as
>  boring as  they are now. They got that way from paying
>  your bills, cleaning your  clothes and listening to you
>  talk about how cool you are. So before you  save the
>  rain forest from the parasites of your parent's
>  generation,  try delousing the closet in your own room.
> 
>  RULE 8
>  Your school may  have done away with winners and
>  losers, but life has not. In some schools  they have
>  abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many
>  times  as you want to get the right answer. This
>  doesn't bear the slightest  resemblance to ANYTHING in
>  real life.
> 
>  RULE 9
>  Life is not  divided into semesters. You don't
>  get summers off and very few employers  are interested
>  in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own
>  time.
> 
>  RULE 10
>  Television is NOT real life. In real life people
>  actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
> 
>  RULE 11
>  Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up
>  working for one.
> 
> 
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