OLPC: Nicholas Negropontes’s quote

Nicholas Negropontes is one of the creators of the OLPC project:

“In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint. I consider that criminal, because children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing, not running office automation tools.”

Source: The Sugar UI by Coding Horror