Off Topic: Whether you like Bill Gates or not

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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