Rube Goldberg quotes

Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist, inventor, and engineer, best known for his drawings of complex, whimsical machines accomplishing simple tasks. His unique style and sense of humor led to the creation of the term “Rube Goldberg machine.” He inspired generations of artists and inventors with his imaginative approach to problem-solving. Here are 14 of his quotes:

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

Rube Goldberg

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

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 that I'm just the same person as I always was.

Rube Goldberg

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 how much the earth weighed.

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 sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

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 I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch - terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

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 engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg

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

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. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Rube Goldberg