One of the lessons is that if you want to grow your economy towards the creative direction of the 21st century, a big banking sector, even if it is successful, is, in fact, bad news.
~ Ragnar Grimsson (born: 1943-05-14 age: 68) president of Iceland.

The reason is the banking industry sucks up all the mathematicians and computer scientists, depriving the innovative industries of their expertise.