Sentences with phrase «how ridiculous an idea»

«No matter how ridiculous an idea, putting it into numerical form makes it sound respectable, even if the implied measurement is transparently absurd,» writes Seife.

I've tried to explain how ridiculous the idea of God's mysterious secret master plan is, and I always encounter the same response.

There will likely be little talk at the coal summit of just how ridiculous the idea of commercially deployed CCS is becoming.

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Two years ago Oakshire Mushroom's Gary Schroeder and three managers started playing with a seemingly ridiculous idea — selling a product to competitors — while trying to address how to stem the loss of the company's 40 % market share in shiitake mushrooms.

Ideas of truly successful entrepreneurs are often at first considered ridiculous by the majority of the public, Isenberg says in his new book Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).

Face it, you have no idea if there are any gods, or if satan inspired your book (a god would not have gotten so much wrong) You act just like those ridiculous crewationist sites caliming science but clearly do not understand how science works... you do not know how logic works.

Anthony & TC, if you think a little, you'll see how this idea is ridiculous.

This idea that they don't mast - rbate or watch p0rn is a ridiculous double standard that obviously played and is playing a real role in how they have approached this issue in their marriage.

Most of you have no idea how ridiculous the whole situation looks from the outside.

Have you any idea how immature and idiotic your ridiculous hyped comments are?

How is it that fans have been complaining for years about Arsenal selling its stars then begin entertaining such a ridiculous idea?

I don't care either way about kneeling during the anthem (I have no idea how kneeling is less respectful than standing) but the rest of this circus is ridiculous.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

How stupid can you get — fancy sacrificing your friendship for some ridiculous ideas.

«Reasonable people can and do disagree on just how negative the impacts may be, or whether there are benefits of development which outweigh its impacts, but the idea that there are NO negative impacts is, frankly, ridiculous,» Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, president of the Hudson Heights Owners Coalition, wrote in an email.

But it's the scenes between Gleeson's nice - guy Caleb and Vikander's cold and naïve Ava that make «Ex Machina» work as well as it does, striking such a great rapport that it completely sells the idea of a man falling in love with a robot, no matter how ridiculous that may sound.

The film is surprisingly spiritual, in fact, not simply an excuse for mayhem but a tale with genuine ideas about our place in the universe, our reliance upon others for our own karmic enlightenment, and how death is inherently even more ridiculous than life, no matter how grizly the end.

This ridiculous idea is just another example of how «school reformers» can take an idea that has great potential and warp it so everyone gets harmed.

The leaders of Parallel Action, whom Musil depicts as so many ridiculous marionettes, are thus all in search of a «redemptive idea,» which they evoke endlessly yet in the vaguest of terms — for indeed, they have neither the slightest inkling of what the idea might be nor how it might perform its redemptive function beyond their country's borders.

Abzu — sorry, but I refuse to write the name in all capital letters and I have no idea how to put that ridiculous caret over the U — isn't Aquanaut's Holiday.

There's no percentage counter or completion ratio for its ridiculous amount of quests so you have no idea how far you are along in completing the game.

They laughed and joked about how the whole idea of pushing giant blocks, especially ones bigger than Link himself was silly, and they found the whole idea ridiculous, so puzzles like that may not be prevalent, or even existant within the game.

Even with the ridiculous and almost unprecedented hype that surrounded the release of SEGA's mega-budget Dreamcast title Shenmue, it's tough to imagine that gamers first diving into the series back then would have any idea how legendary (or infamous) Ryo's adventure would become.

It's another great example of how the media and public not doing any fact checking can lead to ridiculous ideas getting accepted as gospel because some unknown source says they're real.

If C02 is considered as that driver (not a ridiculous idea in principle, although it is more complicated than that as intimated @ 19) how much forcing and thus how much temperature rise could we expect from our CO2 emissions by, say, 1900 or 1940?

How many times have I heard a presentation or read a paper and thought wow that is great or that is ridiculous, or that gives me a great idea.

Do you have a seemingly ridiculous idea for how you will advertise your firm?

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I know how we hung them looks ridiculous in these photos, but at least you can get the idea of curtains.