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My main profession is architect.
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Architect
Profession
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I did not plan to make the Cube.
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Cubes
Plans
Cube
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We turn the Cube and it twists us.
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Twists
Cube
Turn
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Our whole life is solving puzzles.
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Cubes
Gambling
Jigsaw Puzzles
Puzzles
Whole
Solving
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I want to try to keep my life the same.
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Trying
Want
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Usually we are saying only part of the truth.
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I did not plan... the Cube as a competitive item.
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Cube
Item
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It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
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Color
Satisfying
Watch
Parade
Tremendously
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The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.
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Cubes
Jigsaw Puzzles
Problem
Puzzles
Near
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Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's.
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Cube
Flashes
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I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
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Objects
Perfect
Wanted
Object
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The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.
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Complexity
Simplicity
Same
Cube
Same Time
Symbol
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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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Code
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The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
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Cubes
Imitation
Improvement
Itself
Cube
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Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.
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Cubes
Plans
Stills
Cube
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This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it.
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Extraordinary
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Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
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Clever
Enjoyed
Games
Silly
Throughout
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In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
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Communication
Communicate
Creating
Enjoyed
Models
Talking
Teaching
Clearly
Thoughts
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I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.
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Cubes
Icons
Successful
Consider
Cube
Icon
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In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.
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Budapest
Applied
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I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
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Geometry
Passionate
Study
Three
Forms
Three-Dimensional
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I didn't give that name, the Rubik's Cube, and I called it Magic Cube because it's magic.
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Cube
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I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
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Bohemian
Classmates
Somewhat
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I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.
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Thinking
Person
Same
Possible
Still
Invent
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I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.
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Cube
Piece
Same Time
Task
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If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
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Curiosity
Curious
Determined
Puzzles
Solve
Will
Around
Them
Find
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But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
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Capitalist
Invention
Thanks
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I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.
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Curiosity
Enthusiasm
Generations
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I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.
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Cube
Wondering
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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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Clear
Depends
Lying
Problem
Nobody
Fair
Puzzle
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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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Cubes
Impossible
Students
Nearly
Completed
Cube
Realized
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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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Computers
Internet
Approximately
Cube
Same Age
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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.
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Myself Me More
Anybody Else
Cube
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To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.
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Recognition
Cube
For Example
Pattern
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I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.
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Capability
Human Being
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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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Handle
Seems
Simple
Became
Complex
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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.
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Amazed
Generations
Puzzles
Cube
Excite
Thousands
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The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.
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Alive
Block
Hands
Important
Layers
Face Your Important
Blocks
Cube
Meaning
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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.
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Chance
Able
Frustrated
Further
Present
Step
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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.
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Clear
Geometry
Simplicity
Universe
Whole
Cube
Geometrical
Shape
Structured
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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.
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Talents
First One
Natures
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And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.
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Budapest
Mass
Organization
Version
Closely
Cube
Develop
Remain
Shall
Unidentified
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When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.
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Answers
Book
Enjoyable
Process
Lots
Itself
Look Me Process
Straight
Puzzle
Solution
Solving
Studying
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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.
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Smile
Magic
Simple
Today
Words
Basically
Same
Complex
Cube
Mona
Well
Same Time
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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.
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Type
Time Best Good
Activities
Best Time
Capabilities
Best Time Good
Different Type
Minute
People Say
Piano Player
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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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Journey
Home
Cubes
Decided
Lovely
Nice
Way Home
Big Challenge
Challenge
Go Home
Walk
Let Us
Sights
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If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.
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Knowledge
Deeper
Starting
Starting Point
Work Your Find
Collect
Cube
Improve
Solution
Something Else
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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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Mechanism
Pebbles
Staring
Cube
Demonstrate
Falling
River
Searching
Twisting
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