Quotes

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

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

“But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.” 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

“We turn the Cube and it twists us.” Erno Rubik

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

“It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.” 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

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

“Our whole life is solving puzzles.” Erno Rubik

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

“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Death is just life's next big adventure.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels” Joanne Kathleen Rowling