True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

- George Dantzig

Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex m…

- George Dantzig

Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay o…

- George Dantzig

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the c…

- George Dantzig

The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art…

- George Dantzig

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be al…

- George Dantzig

. . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or schedulin…

- George Dantzig