James Vertin of the Wells Fargo Bank, a leading member of the Financial Analysts Federation, wrote: "You just don't win friends ... by appearing to tell sincere, dedicated, intelligent people that they are useless dolts who could and should be replaced by computers.... Rightly or wrong, most practitioners feel themselves to be objects of academic ridicule, and most feel bound to resist this assault."

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 355