Best Derivatives Quotes

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

France has lived a long time – eight or nine centuries – and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I’ve tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options … I am an options trader, and I don’t understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar’s worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.

Most banks – with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here – have decided that they can’t make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they’re going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives.

He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language – happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more… well, pleasant.

I didn’t have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I’m sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Our influences are who we are. It’s rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that’s the problem with the bands I’m always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don’t dilute their influences enough.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

I’m starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down. There’s a winner and a loser. It’s like betting on a horserace.

When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over–we don’t necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated–the amount is substantial. We’re not talking about just lines of code; we’re talking about entire programs. We’re talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.

I was named Margaret Yvonne – Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

We’ve used derivatives for many, many years. I don’t think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Derivatives are like sex. It’s not who we’re sleeping with, it’s who they’re sleeping with that’s the problem.

I feel that opiates – I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. – are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn’t work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it’s you – and that’s great – but my original intention wasn’t to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I think, my generation, it’s hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author’s hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

You’ll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.