[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Urban legend; Microsoft chairman Bill Gates neither wrote the words nor delivered them in a speech to high school students or anyone else.

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

And Snopes.com says the same. Not his creation nor gave a speech like that.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

Tho, still, a very true points on the list.