"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something"
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Rubik’s line has the quiet audacity of someone refusing the myth of the lightning bolt. “I’m still the same person” sounds almost stubborn, but it’s really a philosophy of continuity: invention isn’t a costume you put on after fame, it’s a habit of mind you keep practicing when nobody’s watching. He’s pushing back against the cultural script that treats inventors as either born geniuses or one-hit wonders. The subtext is: the conditions that produced the Rubik’s Cube weren’t a magical year in the 1970s; they’re portable, repeatable, and internal.
The phrasing matters. “Thinking the same way” centers process over product. It suggests that creativity is less about chasing novelty than about protecting a particular kind of attention: a willingness to stay with problems long enough for them to become interesting. Then he undercuts grandiosity with “it’s possible.” No manifesto, no brand promise. Just probability. That modest modal verb is doing heavy lifting, signaling that invention is contingent and experimental, not destined.
Context sharpens it. Rubik became globally synonymous with a single object, an almost unfair level of identification that can freeze a person into a museum exhibit. His sentence tries to thaw that. It’s also a gentle critique of our appetite for origin stories: we want the inventor to be transformed by success, to speak from a pedestal. Rubik insists he’s still at the workbench, which is both a defense of his identity and a reminder that the real engine of innovation is consistency disguised as humility.
The phrasing matters. “Thinking the same way” centers process over product. It suggests that creativity is less about chasing novelty than about protecting a particular kind of attention: a willingness to stay with problems long enough for them to become interesting. Then he undercuts grandiosity with “it’s possible.” No manifesto, no brand promise. Just probability. That modest modal verb is doing heavy lifting, signaling that invention is contingent and experimental, not destined.
Context sharpens it. Rubik became globally synonymous with a single object, an almost unfair level of identification that can freeze a person into a museum exhibit. His sentence tries to thaw that. It’s also a gentle critique of our appetite for origin stories: we want the inventor to be transformed by success, to speak from a pedestal. Rubik insists he’s still at the workbench, which is both a defense of his identity and a reminder that the real engine of innovation is consistency disguised as humility.
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