Erno Rubik Quotes

#1. I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

Morrissey

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

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#3. 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.

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

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

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

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#7. 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.

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

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

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#10. Our whole life is solving puzzles.

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

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#12. The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Tom Robbins

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

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#14. The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Charlie Chaplin

#15. I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

Philip Pullman

#16. 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

#17. If I need to help my team and play a different position for that game because somebody is hurt or they want to give a day off to somebody, I'll do it.

Albert Pujols

#18. I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

Samantha Morton

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

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

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#21. What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

Bruce Springsteen

#22. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

Albert Einstein

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

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

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#25. Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

William Labov

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

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#27. Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

Kary Mullis

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

Erno Rubik

#29. I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.

Aly Raisman

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

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

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#32. Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up.

The Notorious B.I.G.

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

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

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

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#36. The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

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

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#39. TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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