Bill Gates to High School Kids (?)

[fishweewee]

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.

Bill Gates [reportedly - brackets added by wee wee - I didn't have time to check Snopes] recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set 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 $60,000 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.

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 thought you were. 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 e 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 lightest 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.

If you agree, pass it on.

If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

[Notaro]

Damn, man, I didn't know that Bill Gate is a hardcore SOB. I love this guy. He is right about those stuffs. Thanks, Ben.

[chris L]

Im a hi skool drop out do you have and pixchores for me to see

[Mr. Sandman]

I met Bill Gates twice. Both while I was living in the DC area. The first time I was a PC users group meeting where he was the speaker..I talked to him afterwards. (mid 80's) and a year or two later I was sitting in the cafateria at the Washington DC computer show and he came up to me and asked if he could sit at my table (I was alone) I almost gagged on my lunch. We were talking about what was happening at MS and what he sees for the future of computing. I asked him a lot about the real early days when they bought the first DOS rights from MS for something like 50K.
Another young college kid came with his lunch tray and sat down next to him and asked me my name and what I did...I told him, then he ask BG what his name is..."Bill" he replied. What do you do Bill?...I am the ceo of a software company....really? wow, Have I ever heard of it? what company? ...BG replys maybe, MS...The kid turned RED and food came out of his mouth we all laughed so hard.
Actually he is a decent guy from the short time I have spent with him. Has lots of insight and demands a lot from the people that work for him.

I like his above list...I want to show it to my kids. They respect people that make billions.