Quotes by Hungarian authors

"I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing"

"I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment"

"I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed"

"I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful"

"I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time"

"I did not plan to make the Cube"

"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"

"We turn the Cube and it twists us"

"This was such an extraordinary situation that I simply could not accept it"

"Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it"

"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?"

"I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms"

"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life"

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

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

"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"

"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible"

"Usually we are saying only part of the truth"

"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life"

"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down"

"I want to try to keep my life the same"

"Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's"

"Our whole life is solving puzzles"

"It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade"

"In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts"

"I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were"

"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something"

"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it"

"To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand"

"We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound"