________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:23:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter May Subject: Serre I remember a conversation I had with Serre at the Seattle conference on motives. He complained about the ``Serre conjecture'', commenting that even though it was true, he had only raised the question, not made a conjecture. His real complaint was that people kept attaching his name to things, and that made him feel that he shouldn't work on them himself.