Derived Quotes

319 quotes by 268 authors

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created… — Steven Sinofsky
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC. — Steven Sinofsky
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. — Joel Sternfeld
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I… — David Gross
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure… — Adam Ferguson
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control… — Henry Bessemer
The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation… — Kathleen Kenyon
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success,… — Joe Murray
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the… — George Oppen
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the… — David Bohm
The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement… — Talcott Parsons
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. — Sol LeWitt
We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains… — Joel Fuhrman
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples… — Khaled Hosseini
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly' meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. — Larry Hardiman
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce
The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may… — Henry Brooks Adams
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce
Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Yet we still… — Robert White
The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. — Bertrand Russell

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