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“Dark pools were another rogue spawn of the new financial marketplace. Private stock exchanges, run by the big brokers, they were not required to reveal to the public what happened inside them. They reported any trade they executed, but they did so with sufficient delay that it was impossible to know exactly what was happening in the broader market at the moment the trade occurred.”
― Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
― Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
“I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.”
― Armada
― Armada
“We’ve had a number of applications but there was no one with the right mix of technical knowledge and personal despair.”
― Odds Against Tomorrow
― Odds Against Tomorrow
“Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“When I was young,” I explained, “I looked to God to find answers. When God didn’t have anything, I looked for answers in people, but all they said was, ‘Relax, go with it.’” “‘Go with it’?” She queried my American idiom, pronounced in German, using her native Russian. “Don’t fight against inevitability,” I translated loosely. “Life is until it is not, so why get fussed? Don’t hurt anyone, try not to give your dinner guests food poisoning, be clean in word and deed – what else is there? Just be a decent person in a decent world.”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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