Thread: Bill Gates

Originally Posted by Burner02

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

They are all good point but thats my favorite

Fail.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Some Rules Kids Won't Learn in School

Damn the sell by date on this has long passed, I see elementary kids with Bluetooth ear pieces for their cell phones all the time....

Back in my grandparents time Burger Flipping was done at a respectable diner and a nickel could buy something.... Now days burger flipping is for immigrants and ex-cons, it's better to get an entry-level position as a salesman at Radio Shack or something related to a field you might be interested in, I guess if your dreaming of a Culinary Arts Degree, flipping burgers might look good on a resume.

If you become a teacher you'll have summer vacations, if you become a writer or day trader you could spend all day in a coffee shop with a laptop tapping into a wireless hotspot.....

If Bill had actually said this he would know about the technological breakthroughs that make being like a 1980's yuppie executive possible these days......

I just typed this and gave to my kids.

I agree 100%.

Kids these days...

What an excellent find - good job Burner!!

Originally Posted by min0 lee

I just typed this and gave to my kids.

.....in one ear....

I both like and hate Bill Gates. I liked him a lot more before vista came out. Now I want to kick his ass.

Originally Posted by Burner02

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!

Bill Gates 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 abou t 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 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.

Do you have a link for this?

These statements do not sound like Bill Gates. His vocabulary and tone, and topics are often different.

I've also heard some of these statements in chain email, before.


If there's no link, you cannot verify who said this.

I already disproved it in post #3.

yep- got it off email...thought it was decent thing, whether he actually said it or not...evidently...not.
Either way, some good points of advice in there...