I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing…

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

— Sam Shepard

“Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.”

— Ben Casnocha

“No doubt you’ve heard the phrase 'ignorance of the law is no excuse’, and are probably familiar with the statist meaning of that phrase:…

— Starchild

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

— Nancy Pearcey

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather…

— Dennis Ritchie

A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept... The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is it is…

— Blythe Masters

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

— Myron Scholes

In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of…

— Otto Wallach

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want…

— Chrissie Hynde

“I would rather die than be derivative.”

— E.A. Carter

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…

— Myron Scholes

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

— Bennett Miller

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

— Alexis Ohanian