"The markets for equities of all kinds had evolved to a platform for hackers...[High-frequency traders] are the ultimate hackers. They’re running software programs that have one goal, and that’s to exploit the trading systems as early and often as possible... When software programs are trying to outsmart other software programs and hack the world's trading platforms, that is a recipe for disaster." Mark Cuban, June 27, 2012 "We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." W. H. Auden, Age of Anxiety
