All of the seasoned homebuilders told my partner Don Kaufman and I that we were crazy, that no one would buy a house without a basement, and that we would go out of business because we priced the houses too low.
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When we open-sourced our cloud technology, a lot of people thought we were crazy.
' She sat for about three seconds but didn't think we were crazy for asking it.
"People were calling us from the league office and saying we were crazy, " says team president Jonathan Kraft.
No, no, even outside, even in the continental United States, I think they would look at us like we were crazy.
"The authorities were telling us that a gas explosion was too dangerous, that we were crazy, " former Yachting Monthly editor Paul Gelder said.
"At the time everyone thought we were crazy, " says Leiweke, who has spoken with Anschutz "every day" while running AEG for the past 15 years.
One of the things that we did last year was take on a defense program that many thought we were crazy to try to go after and try to cut.
But I'm reminded of what people used to say when I started AOL. Most thought we were crazy to think consumers would want interactivity and a new medium could be created.
"We tried to get them to look at the television and they just sat there looking at us as if we were crazy and then went on with their normal doggy life, " she laughs.
"Even though we were making our characters crazy monsters, we wanted to make sure that their dreams and the pressures felt very real, " said Mr. Scanlon.
"We wrack our brains every year for crazy cliffhangers and we're trying to figure out how to top ourselves, " she says.
"We went absolutely crazy, " Parker says, recalling the time he first heard Charles.
In the chaos that followed the pitches, four amazing people found me, and we had this crazy moment of combustion.
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We all went crazy when Geraldine Ferraro was picked the first female vice presidential choice on a major party ticket in 1984, and Walter Mondale lost 49 states.
Our guides, Dixon and Ambrose, think we're crazy for hauling so much stuff all the way to Africa, but then they've never seen a ski movie before or even a pair of skis.
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We see a lot of crazy stories here at Engadget, especially when we spend our week poking around in dark and scary corners of the internet specifically in search of them, just so you don't have to.
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Even in the offseason we're still football crazy, and some news has leaked out that will adjust how we watch the NFL. Most recently, the Wall Street Journal reports the league has officially relaxed local blackout requirements, which reduces the chance broadcasts are turned off in a team's home area if they don't sell enough tickets.
"This was an area we knew we couldn't veer in any way shape or form, and we'd be crazy to, " Feldman said.
Listen up, because we have heard every crazy thing about this bill.
"I felt like there was no winning, like we were in a crazy dance, " says Ms. Brown, now 45 and a fifth-grade teacher.
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Sure, that last one may sound a bit far-fetched, but with thousands of companies competing for your attention, there's no telling what crazy implementations we'll see this January.
His point was that much of the explosive growth in the trading of complex financial products - CDOs, ABSs, CDS, EFTs and so on, until we were all alphabetty crazy - may have been (in his words) socially useless.
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