Rube Goldberg Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“america...is the interplay of three hundred million rube goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Dr. S didn’t notice. “Do you remember the cartoons of Rube Goldberg? An inventor of the most ludicrous contraptions. You know: a lever is…

— Adam Felber

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.

— Adam Sadowsky

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

— Robert Eggers

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that…

— Willard Scott

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

“The glass display cases had shown rock-throwers crafted by the Australian aborigines - like giant wooden shoehorns, they'd looked, but smoothed and carved and…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“of the necessary equipment to invent really top-notch”

— Lemony Snicket

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

— Demetri Martin

“Kilgore Trout was shadowing him, keen to know what Billy had suspected or seen. Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps…

— Kurt Vonnegut