Erno Rubik Quotes


"Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Now)

"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Students)

"Our whole life is solving puzzles."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Life)

"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Fact, Meaning)

"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Life, Imitation, Improvement)

"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Life, Problems)

"We turn the Cube and it twists us."
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"Usually we are saying only part of the truth."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Truth, Saying)

"It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade."
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"This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it."
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"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it."
- Erno Rubik
"Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's."
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"In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Thoughts, Teaching)

"And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Government)

"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Government, Friends, Invention)

"I did not plan to make the Cube."
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"I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Successful)

"I want to try to keep my life the same."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Life, Want)

"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Nothing)

"I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were."
- Erno Rubik
"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Thinking, Will)

"I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Geometry, Study)

"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
- Erno Rubik
(Related: Lying)