Ah Quants. All the best shouting matches in my last office were between the Quants arguing over things that ultimately were a matter of taste. Proper storming out and slamming of doors arguments.
Then comes this guy in afterwards...
If you were even slightly technical and curious, almost any of them would answer whatever questions you had and would casually shoot the shit about anything in their nerdy areas of interest.
This in contrast with the one floor trader who repeatedly and forcefully kicked me while I was under his desk replacing the Bloomberg keyboard he spilled his Sprite all over...because 3 minutes and from half the building away wasn't a fast enough response time for him.
But their ability to (as frankly average programmers) get into shouting matches (in front of a room full of above average programmers) about shit that didn't matter? Never been beaten.