Top 45 Bad Idea Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Bad Idea Quotes from famous people such as Trey Parker, Dakota Johnson, Avi Rubin, Larry Wall, Ann Wilson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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If we have a great idea, we’ll go, ‘Oh, this could be a cool movie.’ Or really for us, it’s more like, ‘Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let’s do this. This seems really stupid.’
Trey Parker
I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it’s such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
Dakota Johnson
My position hasn’t changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.
Avi Rubin
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall
It’s a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
Ann Wilson
You have to search for the best writer – I’m not saying I’m the one, but it’s a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.
David Lagercrantz
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
Nigel Farage
Talking to people is beneficial if you can identify the right people to share ideas and discuss decisions because everyone has blind spots, and others can sometimes catch yours. I think an investment team is a bad idea, but it is a good idea to talk to trustworthy individuals who do not have biases or interests.
Mohnish Pabrai
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
Charlie Kaufman
Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
William Weld
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra
From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world’s problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
Justin Sane
It’s not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
Lynn Davies
Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like that is a bad idea. You don’t want to be interrupted by ads when you’re chatting with your loved ones.
Jan Koum
I’m in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea.
Angus Deaton
Another solid run through Central Park. Admittedly, six miles turns out to be a bad idea after a full day in heels!
Meghan Markle
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
Ishmael Reed
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.
Paul Singer
I’ve never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I’ve never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
Paul Conrad
I don’t think it’s such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and give them something to respond to and react against.
Robert Christgau
It’s not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.
Emily Procter
No one knows what’s a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.
Marc Randolph
I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn’t be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access.
Stella Young
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
Tavis Smiley
Theatre ticket price capping is not a bad idea.
Rockline Venkatesh
When public figures think they can open a business even though they’ve got no business experience, it’s a bad idea.
Moby
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
Vinod Khosla
Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don’t know if you can go to college and be taught heart.
Blake Shelton
The idea of taking what people call the ‘entertainment culture’ as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
Neil Postman
There’s a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.
Jonathan Krisel
I worry about global anti-Semitism – not just as a bad idea that originates from bad people, but also as something that arises as a challenge to global order.
Timothy D. Snyder
It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was unde

It’s absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn’t a who or a what, he’s an idea. The thing is, you couldn’t continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story’s finished.
David Lloyd
Criminalizing behavior, if it’s part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.
Matt Bevin
In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as ‘the people of peace,’ ‘the little people,’ and ‘the good neighbors.’
Holly Black
We thought it was a bad idea, just the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself at the very front line of such a huge question like climate change. You wouldn’t want that as a parent.
Svante Thunberg
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Julia Cameron
A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.
Adam Neumann
These efforts to defund Planned Parenthood fail because one out of five American women have used Planned Parenthood at one time or another in their life. It’s just a bad idea.
Tina Smith
A manager can have a great idea but if the players don’t understand it, or don’t follow you, your idea doesn’t have much use. On the other side, you can have a bad idea, but if the players are convinced it, and you transmit it well, it can work.
Pedro
Girls are so quick to say they can’t do something, and they won’t even try, whereas boys tend to just go for something even if it’s probably a bad idea.
Julie Foudy
It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
Charles Duhigg
It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
Prince Andrew
While it’s generally easier to stay the course, it’s a bad idea if that course does not take us where we want to go.
Ted Wheeler
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It’s the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you’ll be miserable.
Daniel Kahneman
I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone’s going to catch you.
Rita Moreno