P != NP question

Question

Not a \'pure\' programming question, but since it is deeply involved in programming theory, I thought it best to ask here.

Regarding the P NP problem, this excerpt from

Answer 1

It may or may not be related.

People care about NP problems because we want to solve them quickly and all the time, but so far we have not found a way to solve them quickly. We want to know if there a quick way to solve them or if we should give up trying.