Bill Gates on 11 Things You Didn't Learn in High School

Bill Gate's speech to a high school graduating class is classic! Here it is with apologies that I don't know the original source to credit.

• Rule number one: life is not fair. Get used to it.
• Rule number two: the world is not going to care about your self-esteem. The world is going to expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
• Rule number three: you're not going to make $40,000 right out of high school. You're not going to be vice president with a car phone until you can earn both of them.
• Rule number four: if you think your teacher was tough, just wait until you meet your boss. He or she does not have tenure.
• Rule number five: flipping hamburgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had another word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity.
• Rule number six: if you mess up, it's not your parents' fault. Don't whine about your mistakes; learn from them.
• Rule number seven: before you were born, your parents were not 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 bedroom.
• Rule number eight: your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades. They'll give you as many chances as you want to take the test over and over again until you finally get the right answers. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life,
• Rule number nine: life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off. Very few employers are interested in helping you to find yourself. Do that on your own time.
• Rule number ten: television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to their jobs.
• Rule number eleven: be nice to nerds. Chances are, you're going to end up working for one.