RE: BILL GATES RULES FOR LIFE

[angelsmom10]

 
With graduations over and the teens trying for jobs, and " knowing it all" .  Our company received this in a newsletter.  I had read it before (maybe on last years forum AAADD is working here), but thought it is something people need to realize.
 
 Bill Gates reportedly delivered to the students of Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia, CA last year. Even if this turns to be an urban legend, these words seem worthwhile reading for anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid. Love him or hate him, Bill Gates makes some provocative points worth considering!
 
 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
             to you accomplish something BEFORE you 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 tries 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 be working for one.
 
 

[NCSunshine]

 angelsmom10
Sounds good to me.

[Redwolf]

 angelsmom10
Bill Gates would never say any of this stuff, it s an urban legend.  What Gates would say is, " Your computer belongs to me!  I m going to force you to keep buying my buggy operating system with forced upgrades, because I m not rich enough yet.   You don t own the software on the computer you re using, I m just letting you borrow it."
 
 (no, I don t like Gates)
 
 From the Urban Legends Reference site:
 
 
 

Origins: ÿ 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.  
 
 One version that appeared on the Internet in June 2002 asserts this is the text of a commencement speech given by Bill Gates to the graduating class of Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia, California. It isn t -- he didn t give such a speech, and folks at that school are mystified as to why they ve been dragged into this apocryphal story.
 
  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.
 
   This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can t Read, Write, Or Add. (The list has appeared in newspapers, although not necessarily in this book.)  Many versions of this list omit the last three rules:
 
 
 Rule No. 12: ÿ Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for " expressing yourself"  with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
 
 Rule No. 13: ÿ You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
 
 Rule No. 14: ÿ Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school s a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You re welcome.
 
 
 Advice columnist Ann Landers has printed the first ten items (uncredited) several times, and the list has been used by radio commentator Paul Harvey.  The prize for misattribution, however, has to go to The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, which printed the list twice in three weeks in mid-2000, the first time crediting it to " Duluth state Rep. Brooks Coleman of Duluth,"  and the second time to Bill Gates.

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 angelsmom10
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[angelsmom10]

 angelsmom10
Ok - I was more interested in the thoughts, not so much who said it.
 
 Actually who cares who said it........
            If you have teens, a lot of this is true.

[jpreiser]

 angelsmom10
sounds good anyway.......and he s got the bucks to back it up!!

[Jo Ann]

 angelsmom10
i just printed it out and hung it on my son s room...don t care who wrote these wise words of wisdom!!!!