Speech by Bill Gates

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>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.</p>

<p>Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.</p>

<p>Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.</p>

<p>Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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. </p>

<p>Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.</p>

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

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<p>Gotta love good ol'e Bill :)</p>

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<p>Ha! Wonderful XD</p>

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<p>Haha, I saw that on the wall of a science laboratory.</p>

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<p>
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Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

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<p>That's coming from the richest man on the planet.</p>

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<p>I was highly skeptical of this speech. Therefore, I googled it and got...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/billgatesspeech.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/billgatesspeech.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>These are the type of speeches Bill gives:
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2005/10-14Princeton.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2005/10-14Princeton.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>this stuff is like 10 years old ... cmon</p>

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<p>The first post says: Gates RECENTLY gave a speech. It can't be that old.</p>

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<p>It would depend on when they wrote the word "recent". This is actually quite an old speech, I remember hearing the "Be nice to nerds" part in like elementary school.</p>

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<p>elementary school!...That's old! But it doesn't really matter how old it is as long as he made his point and sent the massage to whoever he was talking to.</p>

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<p>Bill Gates NEVER GAVE THIS SPEECH. This is a false rumor.</p>

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<p>^ agreed. if only people would read above them.</p>

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<p>whaat. i even read this in a magazine.</p>

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<p>okay, this is getting wierd. </p>

<p>love the arts, is there a link you could give that says Bill Gates gave the speech?</p>

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<p>Pretty sure it's a long running internet rumor:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>okay pricedog</p>

<p>your link says that Gates didn't say that, lets see if lovethearts can produce a link to prove you wrong.</p>

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<p>It's not recently... I'm pretty sure he says that everywhere he goes, as I've heard of it multiple times, all claiming to be "recently."</p>

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<p>stuck:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...atesspeech.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...atesspeech.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Well I actually got it from my some girl's web page, I thought it was cool so I posted it. I don't know if it's accurate or not but I thought it was good if it was from him.</p>