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Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative. — Shane Smith

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

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.' — Myron Scholes

Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and
mortgages became derivative investments. — Douglas Rushkoff

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative. — Larry Wall

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

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

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

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

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking. — Ben Casnocha

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room. — Jeremiah Brent

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

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century. — Raoul Dufy

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter. — Edith Wharton

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. — Tori Amos

The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature.
Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature. — Toba Beta

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

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. — Charles Kuralt

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

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

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

Crap. No one's ever called me dorkina before. Derivative of dork. Not good. — Cynthia Hand

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative? — Francois Le Lionnais

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative. — Bennett Miller

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor

The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul. — Gunther Hauk

verb swon to swear, derivative of swannee I swan, raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken — Amy Metz

There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence. — Mark Batterson

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

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination. — Abraham Zaleznik

Don't worry about where you are. Watch the first derivative. — Fred Green

The big car companies are so derivative. They want to see it work somewhere else before they will approve the project and move forward. — Ashlee Vance

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