Derivatives Quotes - Page 2

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.

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

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?

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.

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.

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

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

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

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

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

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.

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.

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.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients. So there are these certain basic things that aren't going to change. Companies are going to have needs for equity, debt, advice, FX, and derivatives. Individuals are going to have needs for auto loans, mortgages, something that looks like a deposit account, and the ability to send money to people. Those things aren't going to change.

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.

While we're talking about votes, Bernie Sanders is one who voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives in 2000, which contributed to the over-leveraging of Lehman Brothers, which was one of the culprits that brought down the economy.

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

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.

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

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

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

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