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| Thread ID: 87340 | 2008-02-17 21:32:00 | Some wisdom from Mr Gates. . . . | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 641252 | 2008-02-17 21:32:00 | 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 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 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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| 641253 | 2008-02-17 23:06:00 | Damn! That's the best thing Billy's said in a long time! And number 11, that rings so true. I intend to be a cruel overlord style nerd boss. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 641254 | 2008-02-17 23:14:00 | :thumbs: | wratterus (105) | ||
| 641255 | 2008-02-17 23:54:00 | Never a truer word said by Billy, now if he could just pass that message on to Frau Helen (our "beloved" priminister) and a few taggers and other teens in this country who seem to be for ever at a loose end, life would be great. :) | vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 641256 | 2008-02-18 00:03:00 | Very good words But I think he gave that speech a couple of years ago. Every kid in South Auckland should be made to learn it off by heart ! Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 641257 | 2008-02-18 00:42:00 | As usual Bill ripped it off from someone else: russ-ramblings.blogspot.com |
pctek (84) | ||
| 641258 | 2008-02-18 01:15:00 | As usual Bill ripped it off from someone else: russ-ramblings.blogspot.com Bill seems to have gotten quite successful from doing just that.:p |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 641259 | 2008-02-18 06:33:00 | Bill seems to have gotten quite successful from doing just that.:p Yeah, as opposed to your beloved Steve Jobs. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 641260 | 2008-02-18 11:26:00 | Yeah, as opposed to your beloved Steve Jobs. BORING!! |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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