Words matter. These are the best Erno Rubik Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.
I want to try to keep my life the same.
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?
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.
The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.
My main profession is architect.
I did not plan… the Cube as a competitive item.
We turn the Cube and it twists us.
I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.
A good puzzle, it’s a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It’s very clear, and the problem depends just on you.
The Cube was a wonder – a wonder for itself and a wonder for myself. To me, it was much more strange than to anybody else.
I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we’re born, we’re – all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.
I am really not a speedcuber. My best time when I was practicing was about a minute. Usually people say if you can create a piano, you must be a good piano player, but it is not true. They are different type of human activities and need different capabilities.
Now, after the Cube, I still don’t have any plans to make anything like it.
I’m still the same person, thinking the same way, so it’s possible I will invent something.
I’m wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.
I did not plan to make the Cube.
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.
Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
Our whole life is solving puzzles.
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it.
Complex things, if you don’t understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.
In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.
If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.
I didn’t give that name, the Rubik’s Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it’s magic.
I’m calling the Cube, it’s a piece of art. At the same time, it’s an intellectual task as well.
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
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.
If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there’s a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.
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.