Bill Gates' wise words to spoiled, entitled kids like me!!

[Marvin Gaye]

My father in law (Ex-GF's poppa!! Yee we're still in touch lmao) sent me this and said he had found it on Facebook. I dunno if it's old or has been posted here before - but nonetheless, these are some good reminders for the young generation:


Bill Gates recently gave a Commencement 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.

 

[Burroughs]

car phone?

when did he give this speech 1981?

 

[Deep Dish]

Tsk, tsk, tsk. The story is bogus.

As frequently happens when texts are repeatedly copied and shared over time, something written by one person has come to be attributed to another. In this case, the displaced text is a pared-down version of an op-ed piece by education reformer Charles J. Sykes, best known as the author of Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can't Read, Write, or Add. The op-ed was originally published in the San Diego Union-Tribune in September 1996. It began making the email rounds under Bill Gates' name in February 2000, and has continued to do so ever since.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bill_gates_speech.htm​

Forget Microsoft. Here is Steve Jobs giving the best, most powerful commencement speech in history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

 

[Vantagepoint34]

Tsk, tsk, tsk. The story is bogus.

As frequently happens when texts are repeatedly copied and shared over time, something written by one person has come to be attributed to another. In this case, the displaced text is a pared-down version of an op-ed piece by education reformer Charles J. Sykes, best known as the author of Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can't Read, Write, or Add. The op-ed was originally published in the San Diego Union-Tribune in September 1996. It began making the email rounds under Bill Gates' name in February 2000, and has continued to do so ever since.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bill_gates_speech.htm​

Forget Microsoft. Here is Steve Jobs giving the best, most powerful commencement speech in history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

1up for Steve Jobs

 

[Marvin Gaye]

yeah I know steve jobs' stanford speech by heart, stay hungry stay foolish! Incredible man.

I admire Bill Gates too though because he's actively developing new vaccines for diseases in poor countries, he's one of my heroes.

 

[backseatjuan]

Wise words.


Bill Gates my ni**a.


Smart little fellow that started his career at the right time and at the right place. He created what everyone needs.


A) Operating system for which everyone writes code
B) Office suite which every one uses

The only thing Bill never accomplished was a good web browser. He made a mistake by offering pennies to developers of Netscape, and when denied, creating Internet Explorer. IE is bad, from version 1.0 to version 10.0 it is crap that crashes and does not display web pages properly. That's what happens when things are motivated by GREED.


Though, Windows 8 is the beginning of the end for Microsoft, releasing that sh`t was an equivalent of stepping out on stage during rap battle and sticking Mic up your own ass. I don't see people switching to Windows 8, and more precisely it would be easier to switch to Apple OS-X or Linux than Windows 8. It's just when you see IT gurus sitting in front of Windows 8 and trying to find start menu you begin to wonder....first WTF is this.......then f`ck this sh`t......then let's install something else.

 

[Rave18]

Here is Steve Jobs giving the best, most powerful commencement speech in history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

 

[Rave18]

Double post. Sorry