  After the discovery of the top quark more than 20 years ago, top quark
production cross sections have been meticulously studied. The rich variety of
results from the LHC experiments are complemented with increasingly accurate
theoretical predictions of heavy quark production and decay. Measurements of
the top quark production provide a benchmark test of perturbative quantum
chromodynamics and the standard model (SM), constraining at the same time the
background in Higgs boson searches as well as extensions beyond the SM. Recent
top quark measurements from CMS are reviewed, illustrating past and current
experimental methods along with their attained precision. A perspective of top
quark physics at the High-Luminosity LHC and at future colliders is briefly
given.
