Seibel: Seymour Papert wrote in Mindstorms about debugging as an important element of an intellectual toolkit—the idea that the name of the game is not to get the right answer but to get an answer and then debug it. Ingalls: Oh, absolutely! People should learn to think clearly and to question. And to me it's very basic. If you grow up in a family where when the cupboard door doesn't close right, somebody opens it up and looks at the hinge and sees that a screw is loose and therefore it's hanging this way vs. if they say, “Oh, the door doesn't work right; call somebody”—there's a difference
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