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

-- Erno Rubik

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“Hey @giseleofficial, I feel ya girl. #kidding #fakebaby #soymilk #shameless”
“Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown
“When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?”

Source : Syracuse University speech, April 19, 2006.
“Well, higher-income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don't need to work. They're higher-income people.”
“The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.”
“It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.”
“We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.”

Source : "Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.
“I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.”

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