Erno Rubik Quotes

• Our whole life is solving puzzles.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Puzzles
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  The Cube is an imitation of life itself – or even an improvement on life.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Cube, Imitation

• But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Government

• A good puzzle, it’s a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It’s very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Puzzle, Problem

• But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Invented

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Government

• Now, after the Cube, I still don’t have any plans to make anything like it.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cube, Plans

• It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tremendously, Satisfying

• 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?

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Walk, Time

• I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Perfect

• In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Enjoying

• I’m still the same person, thinking the same way, so it’s possible I will invent something.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Thinking

• I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Successful

• I did not plan to make the Cube.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plan, Cube

• Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cube, Demonstrated, Impossible

• I want to try to keep my life the same.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Try

• I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Classmates, Place

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

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passionate, Study, Geometry

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cube, Fact

• The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Problems, Puzzles

Erno Rubik (24)

Birth:	13th July, 1944
Nationality:	Hungarian
Profession:	Architect, Game Designer, Interior Designer, Inventor, Professor

About

Erno Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary. He is a Hungarian inventor, architect, designer, and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition, and Rubik's Snake. From 1962 to 1967, he attended the Budapest University of Technology where he became a member of the Architecture Faculty. From 1967 to 1971, he attended the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts and was on the Faculty of Interior Architecture and Design. From 1971 to 1979, he was a professor of architecture at the Budapest College of Applied Arts.

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