"The lack of concern that money market people displayed about dotting [sic] the legal i's and is with respect to repo reflected ... their notion that they were afforded much protection by the standards of the business in which they operated. Money market folk have always felt, at least until recently, that they are in a business in which people say My word is my bond' and mean it; a business in which, if someone says something is done,' it is done." (Stigum 1989, p. 218) It should be noted that "repo" has uses quite other than those discussed above.

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 1295