Erno Quotes & Sayings

Well, if you were perfect, then you wouldn't be real. Maybe those things about you that you think I hate are actually the ones I find most interesting ... — Jeff Erno

Usually we are saying only part of the truth. — Erno Rubik

Rustin knew that Tommy was right. It was high time he stopped being so passive. After all, he'd moved halfway across the country to start his life over. If he didn't have the balls to put himself out there and take the bull by the horns - or the cowboy by the balls - then he deserved to be alone and lonely. — Jeff Erno

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. — Erno Rubik

I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a
million others on a beach. — Jeff Erno

It is also a victory to know when to retreat. — Erno Paasilinna

This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it. — Erno Rubik

If it is a sin to be gay, then why did God make you that way to begin with? ... What kid of god would condemn someone for just being the way that they are? ... I do not believe for one second that God thinks we are unnatural or sinful because we love people of our same gender. — Jeff Erno

We turn the Cube and it twists us. — Erno Rubik

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible. — Erno Rubik

One has to live a life that creates a writer. — Erno Paasilinna

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. — Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade. — Erno Rubik

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful. — Erno Rubik

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. — Erno Rubik

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm. — Erno Rubik

How will I go on without her?!
The answer was very simple: one day at a time. — Jeff Erno

Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it. — Erno Rubik

Love does not hurt people. Fear does. — Jeff Erno

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

Our whole life is solving puzzles. — Erno Rubik

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? — Erno Rubik

Love is love. Regardless of gender. — Jeff Erno

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. — Erno Rubik

Does it bother you when you see Daddy kissing Josh?" he asked.
Ty shook his head and made a funny face. "No, not really. I guess you really like him a lot."
"I do," Rex agreed. "I love Josh."
"I love Josh too, and so I don't care if you kiss him. But I thought boys only kissed girls."
Rex nodded. "Yeah, well, that's how it is most of the time, but you know some boys kiss other boys and some girls kiss other girls."
"Well, I don't wanna kiss no girls!" Ty said emphatically.
Rex and Josh both laughed. "Maybe someday you will, though. If you do, that's fine, and if you don't, that's fine too. For right now, you can just kiss Daddy." He leaned in and kissed Ty on the forehead. — Jeff Erno

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught. — Erno Paasilinna

Okay, rule number one: if you do not understand something, you need to stop me and tell me you don't understand. If I ask if you've got it and you say you've got it but you don't really have it, then it's not my fault that you haven't got it. Got it? — Jeff Erno

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you. — Erno Rubik

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it. — Erno Rubik

So Hella is right whenshe says, 'Love enobles [veredelt].' Erno... said, 'You've made a slip of the tongue. You meant to say: love makes fools (of people) [vereselt]. — Attributed To Grete Lainer

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

Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's. — Erno Rubik

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were. — Erno Rubik

I was more than this meek, defenseless victim. I had something within me that was stronger than the sum of all my unacceptable parts. — Jeff Erno

Every soldier is an enemy. — Erno Paasilinna

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down. — Erno Rubik

I want to try to keep my life the same. — Erno Rubik

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. — Erno Rubik

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms. — Erno Rubik

Medicaid only allowed you three choices of
frames ... ugly, uglier, and fuckin rape prevention birth control! — Jeff Erno

I did not plan to make the Cube. — Erno Rubik

I can tell you a lot of things about bullying and what it does to a person." Tears are forming in his eyes as he continues."But sadly, I can't tell you that I've done my part to make it stop. — Jeff Erno

Really it's not deliberate. Sometimes I try really hard to be anything but gay. I watch the other guys - and I know what you're thinking. You think I mean I check them out, and yeah, I can't help but do that too. But what I'm sayin is that I watch the really normal guys, the ones who are into sports, who act all totally straight, and I try to copy them. I try to lower the timber of my voice, not sound so nasally when I talk. I try to gesture with my hands in a manly sorta way instead of all limp-wristed and girly. I try to remember not to sit with my legs crossed, and I try really hard to avoid throwing a ball like a girl. — Jeff Erno

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. — Erno Rubik