The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture th…

- Jack Edmonds

Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over …

- Jack Edmonds

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.

- Jack Edmonds

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

- Jack Edmonds

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

- Jack Edmonds