Derivative Quotes

“Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.”

“Since the 1970S, financial innova­tions such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreading of investment risks through the creation of derivative markets, all tacitly (and now, as we see, actually) backed by state power, have permitted a huge flow of excess liquidity into all facets of urbanisa­tion and built environment construction worldwide.”

“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”

“Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.”

“I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.”

“The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul.”

“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. ”

“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.”

“Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.”