Rube Goldberg

“Professor Butts walks in his sleep, strolls through a cactus field in his bare feet, and screams out an idea for a…

— Rube Goldberg

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

— Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

— Rube Goldberg

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success…

— Rube Goldberg

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet.…

— Rube Goldberg

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

— Rube Goldberg

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

— Rube Goldberg

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

— Rube Goldberg

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

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that…

— Rube Goldberg

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

— Rube Goldberg

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining…

— Rube Goldberg

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a…

— Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I…

— Rube Goldberg

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

— Rube Goldberg

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel…

— Rube Goldberg

“Be your own dentist!”

— Rube Goldberg