Erno Rubik

I want to try to keep my life the same.

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

I am really not a speedcuber. My best time when I was practicing was about a minute. Usually people say if you can create a piano, you must be a good piano player, but it is not true. They are different type of human activities and need different capabilities.

If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.

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

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

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

I don't want to say too many words about the magic of the Cube, because it's basically a mystery. It's like the Mona Lisa smile. It's both complex and very simple at the same time. And, well, people like it. Even today.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

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?

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

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