Derivatives famous quotes

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Gold #Derivatives #Commodity

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Business #Past #Derivatives

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Development #Derivatives #Medieval

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.
-- Anthony Storr

#Fall #Able #Derivatives

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

#Derivatives #Doctrine #Social

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
-- Calista Flockhart

#Titles #Derivatives #Compliment

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

#Evil #Derivatives #Horror

The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Charles P. Kindleberger

#Lasts #Firsts #Derivatives

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
-- Dan Harmon

#Television #Derivatives #Democratic

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
-- Irvin D. Yalom

#Meaning Of Life #Derivatives #Forgotten

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 financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.
-- James Chanos

#Evil #Done #Derivatives

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 #Derivatives #Sometimes

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
-- John Milton

#Kings #People #Derivatives

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.
-- John Orloff

#Derivatives #Fantasy #Gnome

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.
-- Judd Gregg

#Issues #Derivatives

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.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#White #Derivatives #Crime

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 #Derivatives

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.
-- Mary Timony

#Rocks #Derivatives #Boring

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
-- Max Planck

#Fundamentals #Matter #Derivatives

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
-- Max Planck

#Matter #Derivatives #Fundamentals

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Derivatives #Morality #Stem

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Business #Want #Derivatives

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 #Derivatives

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards.
-- Peter Brook

#Yesterday #Fields #Derivatives

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
-- Sebastian Faulks

#Derivatives #Commodity #More Money

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.
-- Sonny Rollins

#Music #Derivatives

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.
-- Steven Strogatz

#Zero #Derivatives #Extremes

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
-- Tom Selleck

#Derivatives #Moved On #Said

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
-- Warren Buffett

#Weapons #Derivatives #Investing

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
-- William Gibson

#Soul #Horizon #Derivatives

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

#Independent #Doe #Derivatives

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?
-- Dan Santat

#Television #Saws #Derivatives

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.
-- Dan Santat

#Television #Saws #Derivatives

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.
-- Paul Singer

#Derivatives #Should #Trading

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.
-- John L. Casti

#Levels #Derivatives #Financial