#derivative

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

— Mary Timony

#derivative #feel #i #like #much

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

#accounted #any #derivatives #done #evil

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

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. ↗

— James Chanos

#derivatives #desks #driving #i #know

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#comfortably #derivative #early #early work #first

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.

#committed #crimes #deplorable #derivative #greater

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

— Charles Kuralt

#comes #derivative #good #good writing #i

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together. ↗

— Eric San

#being #came #certain #certain things #could

... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult. ↗

— Yanis Varoufakis

#economic-models #economics #markets #faith

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

#advanced #any #back #beliefs #derivative