Erno Rubik Quotes

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

I like to make people think a little bit.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

Think until it hurts.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.

I feel more like a father to a child: my Cube inspired thousands of 'twisty puzzles,' and I'm amazed how it continues to excite new generations.

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

The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'

People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.

Women bring some great qualities to work. We bring risk-awareness. We bring a greater focus on relationships. We bring more holistic decision-making than gentlemen do. We bring a more long-term perspective than gentlemen do. We tend to look for meaning and purpose in our jobs to a greater degree than gentlemen do.

To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or screenplay.

When I play Raven, I have to play her at the height of my intelligence.

I stopped playing the drums when I was ten, and I picked up Rubik's Cubes. I was doing that for a while, and then I got into cinematography.