Susan Brown

“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.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“The simple reason Goldman wasn’t making much of the big money now being made in the stock market was that the stock market had become a war of robots, and Goldman’s robots were slow.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was, in fact, a woodpecker whose presence would have thrilled him had he known what it was.”
― Ruth Rendell, The Babes In The Wood

“We’ve had a number of applications but there was no one with the right mix of technical knowledge and personal despair.”
― Nathaniel Rich, Odds Against Tomorrow