Sentences with phrase «obvious idea»

This is one of those brilliant obvious ideas that is so great.

Within two years, the team was the largest in the school, with over a quarter of the student body running, jumping, and throwing for us, and when I left, nearly everyone mentioned the creation of the team — which to me was the most obvious idea possible — as my defining accomplishment.

I know, I know, this stuff should come second to students being alert in class... I'm sympathetic to the idea, I'm just pointing out that the perfectly obvious idea of later start times for high school hasn't gotten traction in some places.

That was the exciting and intuitively obvious idea behind microloans, which took off in the 1990s as a way of helping poor people out of poverty.

The tenants come up with various plans to escape their predicament but never think of the more obvious ideas like writing a message on a bedsheet and hanging it from a window.

The film offers basic, practical and obvious ideas for moving forward, which makes the symbolism of bookending the film with a simple problem - solving experiment involving chimps and building blocks hard to miss: we're perhaps not as smart in a practical sense as our less evolved simian cousins.

Its too obvious an idea to footnote.

Research shows that some of the most obvious ideas, like showing people an article from the opposite perspective, actually deepen polarization by framing other perspectives as foreign.

«It's been called radical and extreme,» said GiveDirectly co-founder Michael Faye at a South by Southwest panel on Friday, «but it's a strikingly simple and obvious idea.»

Swansea came to the Emirates last night with the obvious idea of trying to emulate Chelsea by flooding the midfield and defence to try and stop Arsenal scoring.

It is an obvious idea — in fact, it's how nature disposes of trees after they die.

The most obvious idea is that the lemming population gets so big there isn't enough food for everyone, so every four years most of the lemmings starve to death.

Chiddix argues that these simple, obvious ideas should never have been granted patents.

Growth has been our mantra for so long [that] we're just completely used to it as the obvious idea.

A walk along the pier may seem like an obvious idea, but if the sun is out it makes an ideal relaxed date.

She was raising the controversial but obvious idea that, as humans,

They turn an obvious idea into an emotional adventure guided by superb craftsmanship.

Toys to life for spaceships is such an obvious idea I can't believe it doesn't already exist.

A great and obvious idea to hoist sail when conditions are right, except that modern freighters don't carry the proper mast structures for it — this is a clever solution.

These all who read this, I can not ignore this, as they wish, because nobody can forbid you, but remember, that I have the obvious idea that these ENIGMA successfully complete!!.

I was reading this post about how Copenhagen now allows cycling in parks, and it seemed like such a good and obvious idea, I wondered «why not everywhere?»

Sam Glover: The obvious idea is if you are trying to build a business, you need promoters.

It's an obvious idea, and others have tried this to a limited extent before, most notably Fitbit with its ill - fated Force, but nobody has done it well.

As we explained in that post, RCDI's patent not only claimed an obvious idea, but had been expanded so broadly that it effectively covered any kind of remote updating over the Internet.

Ultimately this patent is one of hundreds or thousands of patents that don't describe actual inventions, but rather just rehash old, obvious ideas «on a computer» using confusing language.