比尔·盖茨的11条准则
让人感觉良好的循规蹈矩的教育只能导致我们成为真实世界中的失败者。
—比尔·盖茨写给高中生和大学生
1. Life is not fair, get used to it.
2. The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish
something before you feel good about yourself.
3. You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice
president with a car phone, until you earn both.
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a diferent word for burger
flipping; they called it opportunity.
6. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about our mistakes, learn from
them.
7. 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 own room.
8. 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 times as you wanted to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
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.
10. Television is NOT life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to
jobs.
11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
self-esteem：自尊 tough：严厉的 tenure：任期 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.烙牛肉饼并不有损你的尊严。 mess up：陷入困境 whine：哀诉 parasite：寄生虫 delouse：除去的可厌物 do away with：取消 abolish：彻底废除 resemblance：相似 semester：学期 nerd：乏味的人
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