这是Daniel Stroock在 Technology Review: November/December 2007 写的关于
quant的一篇短文，挺有意思的。
The Blow-Up
by Daniel Stroock
"The role that so-called quants play in the financial world is analogous
to the role batfish play in keeping coral reefs tidy. Just as batfish do not
construct the reef but are essential to its health, quants do not create
the structure financial markets depend on but do preserve the conditions
that make markets function. So it would be
