Bill Gates' Speech

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Bill Gates' Speech to MT. Whitney High School in Visalia,
California:
Worth while reading for anyone. Love him or hate him, he sure
hits the
nail on the head with this!

To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been
a kid,
here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high
school speech
about eleven 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 can feel
good about yourself.

> > Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 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 are. So before you
save the rain
forest from the parasites of your parents' 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. 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!


Okay, if it would STOP raining, I would find something better to do!!
 
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Bill should

sit in front of his computer and
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forget about giving speech's, he should return and work on his programming.
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They are even advertising the infamous blue screens on TV trying to get people to switch to apple.
 

Jim Hinsch

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According to eRumor (http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/billgatesspeech.htm) and http://198.64.129.160/language/document/liferule.htm :

The Truth.
This is not from Bill Gates. It's an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.

No, this list didn't originate with Microsoft head Bill Gates. (It's frequently cited on the Internet as having come from his book Business @ The Speed of Thought, but it didn't.) Why it's attributed to Gates is a mystery to us; it doesn't really sound the least bit like something he would write. Possibly, the item the Internet-circulated version of the list generally ends with ("Be nice to nerds") struck a chord with someone who views Gates as the ultimate successful nerd of all time.

Nor is this list is the work of Kurt Vonnegut, another person to whom authorship has been attributed. A clue found in those versions ("From a college graduation speech by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.") explains why folks want to lay these random words of wisdom on his doorstep: In 1998, the Internet was swept with a narrative that has come to be known as the sunscreen speech. That work of inventive fiction was actually the product of Chicago Tribune writer Mary Schmich, but Internet-circulated versions claimed it was a college graduation speech given by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut thus became associated in the minds of some people with pithy advice to young adults.

See http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/gates.htm
 

mainer

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Jim,
That is interesting info. I am sorry if I am giving false credit by copying and pasting my junk e-mail out of boredom.

But, how did you find all of this out? Did you actually research it? I never would have known how to do that.

Just wondering???
Mainer