“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, book Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 93

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