Don't worry about where you are. Watch the first derivative.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

— Anonymous

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

— Alexis Ohanian

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear…

— Ludwig von Mises

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

— Sonny Rollins

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

— Tori Amos

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down.…

— Michael Hudson

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

— Francois Le Lionnais

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

— Dan Harmon

What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to…

— Norbert Wiener

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

— Nancy Pearcey

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

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

The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

— Charles P. Kindleberger