  Twenty-five years ago the International Few-Body Conference was held in
Quebec City. It became very clear at that meeting that the theoretical
situation concerning the He3 and H3 ground states was confused. A lack of
computational power prevented converged brute-force solutions of the Faddeev or
Schroedinger equations, both for bound and continuum states of the
three-nucleon systems. Pushed by experimental programs at Bates and elsewhere
and facilitated by the rapid growth of computational power, converged solutions
were finally achieved about a decade later. Twenty-five years ago the first
three-nucleon force based on chiral-symmetry considerations was produced. Since
then this symmetry has been our guiding principle in constructing three-nucleon
forces and, more recently, nucleon-nucleon forces. We are finally nearing an
understanding of the common ingredients used in constructing both types of
forces. I will discuss these and other issues involving the few-nucleon systems
and attempt to define the current state-of-the-art.
