Derivatives Quotes - Page 3

• There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.

  Cornel West

  Corporations, Driven, Used

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down. There's a winner and a loser. It's like betting on a horserace.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Loser, Winner

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

  Johann Bernoulli

  Education, Math, Statistics

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• When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Interesting, Creative, Stories

  "Book Talk - Nicholas Sparks on Telling Stories Through Text, Film". www.reuters.com. October 10, 2013.

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• It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.

  John Ratzenberger

  Cheer, Real, Book

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.

  Darl McBride

  Rights, Views, Talking

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• France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

  Raoul Dufy

  Art, Eight, Long

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• Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Writing, Fantasy, Makers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

  Jeremiah Brent

  People, Design, Personality

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].

  Charlie Munger

  Dumb, Buckets, Acquisition

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• You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

  Sam Altman

  Support, Important, Projects

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• We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Years, Law

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the sun. The sun casts its rays on the Houses as it passes, turning them crimson. The color worn by the physical Cardinals is red, to symbolize that they are illuminated by their proximity to the Pope, the representative of God on earth. The word Pope, may also be a derivative of the word in Egyptian for the evil serpent Apep, Apophis or Apopsa (See Poop Deck and Pupa, and Pepsi, Pepsid, Dr. Pepper, Sgt. Pepper, etc,).

  Michael Tsarion

  Sgt Pepper, Color, Evil

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• To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

  Bernard Crick

  Doctrine, Social, Claims

  Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”

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• Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Originality, Artistic

  1967 Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.

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• I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, Discipline, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Levels, Ethics

  "Something Borrowed". www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2004.

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• I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

  Mary Daly

  Buddhism, Islam, Sin

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• What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

  Kenneth Turan

  Wise, Romance, Hollywood

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• Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

  Steven Strogatz

  Zero, Extremes, Sluggish

  Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity”, p.116, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

  Steven Saylor

  Expression, Ideas, Evil

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• The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.

  Thomas Berry

  Offering, Community, Political

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• 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 about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

  James Berardinelli

  Night, Men, Cable Tv

  "The November Man (United States, 2014)". A movie review by James Berardinelli, www.reelviews.net. August 29, 2014.

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

  Charles Hermite

  Evil, Horror, Function

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• In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

  Hugo Rossi

  Time, Fall, Math

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