Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Professor Butts walks in his sleep, strolls through a cactus field in his bare feet, and screams out an idea for a self-operating napkin.” — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh,… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with. — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine. — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either. — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
