Thoughts on Heavy Quark Production

Various aspects of heavy flavor production in heavy ion collisions in the context of elementary collisions are reviewed. The interplay between theory in experiment in $\epem$ and $\pbarp$ data is been found to be non-trivial, even with new NLO calculations. Quarkonium suppression in p+A and A+A show puzzling features, apparently connected to features of inclusive particle production. Open charm is found to scale as expected for a hard process, but strangeness is also found to share these features. These features contribute to heavy flavor as a interesting probe of strong interactions.