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“The role had been spawned by the widespread belief that traders didn’t know how to talk to computer geeks and that computer geeks did not respond rationally to big, hairy traders hollering at them.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“The deep problem with the system was a kind of moral inertia. So long as it served the narrow self-interests of everyone inside it, no one on the inside would ever seek to change it, no matter how corrupt or sinister it became—though even to use words like “corrupt” and “sinister” made serious people uncomfortable, and so Brad avoided them.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“Someone out there was using the fact that stock market orders arrived at different times at different exchanges to front-run orders from one market to another.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt