Be Nice To Nerds

After repeatedly reading the acclaimed list of Rules Kids Won't Learn at School, I get the irrefutable urge to write about it, so I go look for a lot of stuff so as to have foundations for my next blogpost. I wanted to write about this list mainly because of how everyone says it was Mr. Microsoft who wrote it.

Turns out, he didn't even think about it.

He did, however, obliterate an iPod in public.

According to snopes.com, Sir William has absolutely nothing to do with the famous list (which has been seen now by more than 80% of the world population) and is in fact just a coincidental example of Rule #11 which tells us:

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Actually, credit goes to Mister Charles J. Sykes, a man whose life probably went down the drain for him to have written a total of 50 rules (gasp) kids won't learn on their own. The thing is, the prize for the misquotation goes to the exceedingly trustful Atlanta Journal and Constitution, a journal that is so believed that it can probably give people images of flying penguins, and even they were somewhere away in Dreamland because they atrributed the list to "Duluth state Rep. Brooks Coleman of Duluth" (whatever the heck that is) before actually giving credit to Billy.

We can all safely assume that the Atlanta journalists all killed themselves as soon as this info leaked out.

Pictured: misquotation cost