Idea in a sentence as a noun

[2] At amazon they have this crazy idea that engineers should have pagers.

He learned how to raise money by selling his business idea to other people who think like him.

I don't relish the idea of building a company and then selling it... but life is more complicated than that.

With the green usernames, they're both at 00FF00 and have no idea if the community has given the other person more votes.

The faster you get things done, and the more thorough and error-free they are, the more ideas you can execute on, which means you will learn faster in the future too. Over the long term, programming skill is like compound interest.

To this day I have no idea what ticked that guy off to single us out like that but I decided I did not want to live in a country where I had such little rights.

When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea.

Inhaling a lungful of carcinogenic smoke several hundred times a day is undoubtedly a stupid idea.

Many people today do not even give pause over the idea that the government claims huge amounts of unchecked power, whether it is to fight terrorists or to expand social programs.

If you are burned out, you might still be able to feel the joy and excitement briefly at the start of a project/idea, but they will fade quickly as the reality of day-to-day work sets in.

Many years ago, before the creation of the Web, a small group of us used to meet at a little wooden church just off the Stanford campus to discuss a little-known idea called nanotechnology.

If you're delaying on this point out of some idea of wanting to "try to fix things first" or "not wanting to be the bad guy," you're just shooting yourself in the foot and downing blood thinners to keep the wound from clotting.

You've already made a significant investment into the company, and from their perspective, an ideal/successful squeeze-out is one that deprives you of that ownership interest entirely.

You will either have something going from your side project or you will have enough money saved to legitimately work full time on something without worrying about billsAs far as the idea, go for something as boring as possible.

Why don't we let Reddit be Reddit, and HN be HN?Why would I want HN to be a megaphone for Famous Joe Blow X when I'd much rather have him actively participating and helping out in the threads with the rest of us?This is a very bad idea in my opinion.

This John Carmack quote is relevant and shares your sentiments:"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

Idea definitions

noun

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"

See also: thought

noun

your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"

See also: mind

noun

a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"

noun

an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"

See also: estimate estimation approximation

noun

(music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"

See also: theme