Books Quote by Steven Saylor

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an…

— John L. Casti

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but…

— Anonymous

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right…

— James Berardinelli

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing…

— Annia Ciezadlo

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that…

— Max Planck

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring…

— Charlie Munger

We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we…

— George Soros

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

— Julia Child

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Alexis Ohanian

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

— Charles Hermite