Erno Rubik

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

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.

My main profession is architect.

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.

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

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

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

I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River Danube, looking at how the water moved around the pebbles. This became the inspiration for the cube's twisting mechanism. The fact that it can do this without falling apart is part of its magic.

I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.

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

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

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