DREWspective

At my current workplace, there’s a printout stuck to someone’s wall with a summary of a speech, allegedly given by Bill Gates at a high school.

It basically highlighted eleven "points": all of which were the typical, sometimes truthful but intentionally spiteful "tough love" platitudes given by arrogant high achievers. The first of these was the successful person’s favourite, Life is not fair - get used to it.

From the time I first read the printout, I dismissed it as bullshit. As rich and in as powerful a position as Bill Gates is, I didn’t seriously think he would say anything that arrogant. Less believable was the idea of him turning up at a school, just to dish that crap out to a few students.

A brief search before now didn’t turn anything relevant up, but after some deeper research, I’ve found out what I’ve suspected all along: that it wasn’t him who said it. Yet again, some bored American bastard decided it would be cool to pretend it was.