  Quark flavour physics is the study of hadrons, their properties, and their
decays into other particles. As a discipline it simultaneously catalogues the
nature of physical states within the Standard Model of particle physics, and in
doing so tests the consistency and completeness of the Standard Model's
description of reality. Following the discovery of the Higgs field, it is more
essential than ever to critically examine the Standard Model's own coherence.
Precision studies of quark flavour are one of the most sensitive experimental
instruments for this task. I give a brief and necessarily selective overview of
recent developments in quark flavour physics and discuss prospects for the next
generation of experiments and facilities, with an emphasis on the energy scales
of beyond Standard Model physics probed by these types of measurements.
