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Erno Rubik
Hungarian
Inventor
About the author
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,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Time
#Home
#Order
Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Now
Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Students
Our whole life is solving puzzles.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Life
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,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Fact
#Meaning
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Life
#Improvement
#Imitation
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Life
#Problems
We turn the Cube and it twists us.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
Usually we are saying only part of the truth.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Saying
#Truth
It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Teaching
#Thoughts
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,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Government
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Friends
#Government
#Invention
I did not plan to make the Cube.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Successful
I want to try to keep my life the same.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Want
#Life
I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Nothing
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Will
#Thinking
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Study
#Geometry
A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.
Erno Rubik,
Hungarian
Inventor
#Lying