Erno Quotes

#1. So Hella is right whenshe says, 'Love enobles [veredelt].' Erno... said, 'You've made a slip of the tongue. You meant to say: love makes fools (of people) [vereselt].

Attributed To Grete Lainer

#2. Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

Erno Paasilinna

#3. I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

Erno Rubik

#4. It is also a victory to know when to retreat.

Erno Paasilinna

#5. If it is a sin to be gay, then why did God make you that way to begin with? ... What kid of god would condemn someone for just being the way that they are? ... I do not believe for one second that God thinks we are unnatural or sinful because we love people of our same gender.

Jeff Erno

#6. I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

Erno Rubik

#7. Every soldier is an enemy.

Erno Paasilinna

#8. 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

#9. This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it.

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

#11. Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Erno Rubik

#12. 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

#13. How will I go on without her?!
The answer was very simple: one day at a time.

Jeff Erno

#14. It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Erno Rubik

#15. Okay, rule number one: if you do not understand something, you need to stop me and tell me you don't understand. If I ask if you've got it and you say you've got it but you don't really have it, then it's not my fault that you haven't got it. Got it?

Jeff Erno

#16. I can tell you a lot of things about bullying and what it does to a person." Tears are forming in his eyes as he continues."But sadly, I can't tell you that I've done my part to make it stop.

Jeff Erno

#17. 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

#18. Love does not hurt people. Fear does.

Jeff Erno

#19. I was more than this meek, defenseless victim. I had something within me that was stronger than the sum of all my unacceptable parts.

Jeff Erno

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

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

#22. Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's.

Erno Rubik

#23. The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Erno Rubik

#24. One has to live a life that creates a writer.

Erno Paasilinna

#25. Medicaid only allowed you three choices of
frames ... ugly, uglier, and fuckin rape prevention birth control!

Jeff Erno

#26. I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a
million others on a beach.

Jeff Erno

#27. Well, if you were perfect, then you wouldn't be real. Maybe those things about you that you think I hate are actually the ones I find most interesting ...

Jeff Erno

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

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

#30. Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.

Erno Rubik

#31. We turn the Cube and it twists us.

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

#35. Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

#37. The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Erno Rubik

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

Erno Rubik

#39. Love is love. Regardless of gender.

Jeff Erno

#40. I want to try to keep my life the same.

Erno Rubik

#41. I did not plan to make the Cube.

Erno Rubik