I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Stuart Sherman Copy Share Image
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there. — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is… — Francois Le Lionnais Copy Share Image
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity. — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and… — John Orloff Copy Share Image
Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We print journalists are victims of economic forces beyond our control. We were as surprised as everyone else was by the sudden… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
I mean, we've always had gold bugs, but now we sort of realize that Treasure Bills might be in the same category.… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game. — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw… — Dan Santat Copy Share Image
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
