Cubed Quotes

“Different nations speak of the many possible relationships to money when they speak: The French “gain” money (gagner), the English “earn” it, the Americans “make” it, the Russian “works” for it (работать), and in my mother tongue, we “look for” it (keres).”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“There is the mystery of consciousness, of life and death,”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“For me, one of the keys to happiness is to not need more than you are capable of. I suppose that someone could say that this is the luxury of having it. But the fact is, even when I was living on my university salary, I felt the same way. In the end, I will always be my father’s son, dragging rocks from one shore to another, just to make something useful.”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“it is practically impossible to describe the kinds of movements and appearances of the Cube without handling it and seeing it. Our”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“Simplicity is much more mysterious than complexity because it gives the impression that everything you need to know is right in front of you. But it isn't.”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“The ability I admire most in humans is the capacity of our minds to create abstraction from reality and use that abstraction to inform reality.”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“Inside that stone there is a statue; you need a sculptor to show you how it emerges.”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“Curiosity is like thirst or hunger, a drive to fill a gap, scratch an intellectual and emotional itch.”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

“Money isn't important to me. When I didn't have money, I had no problem because I had what I wanted. For me, one of the keys to happiness is to not need more than you are capable of.”
― Ernö Rubik, Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All