Hungarian - Inventor | July 13, 1944 -
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.
Erno Rubik
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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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I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
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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.
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I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.
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I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
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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?
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Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.
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But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
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Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
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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.
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The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.
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