Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
Nicholas NegroponteI've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.
Nicholas NegroponteThe process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.
Nicholas NegroponteThe notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
Nicholas Negroponte