Erno Rubik

Inventor

1944-07-13

Quotes by Erno Rubik

• If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

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• Our whole life is solving puzzles.

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• If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.

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• I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.

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• When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

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• The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

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• I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

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• It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

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• I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River Danube, looking at how the water moved around the pebbles. This became the inspiration for the cube's twisting mechanism. The fact that it can do this without falling apart is part of its magic.

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• We turn the Cube and it twists us.

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• Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?

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