No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.
Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.
The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.
The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.
Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we can have, especially being an artist, is that we can create music that can build bridges and smash down very bad ideas.
Democrats have bad ideas and Republicans have no ideas.
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.
Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.
One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we should abandon the poor to their fate in order to protect their dignity.
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
