The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
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 NegroponteWhile a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
Nicholas Negroponte