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Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.
No one is original. Everyone is derivative.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
I didn't become interested in derivatives until 1982, 1983.
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.
I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.
You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.
To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.
The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.
The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.
With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.
Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.
I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.
The financial crisis involved significant failures in the functioning, regulation, and supervision of OTC derivatives markets.
A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.
When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?
Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.
Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.
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.
The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else