Erno Rubik

“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.”

“Our whole life is solving puzzles.”

“I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.”

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

“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.”

“This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it.”

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

“The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.”

“I did not plan... the Cube as a competitive item.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.”

“Usually we are saying only part of the truth.”