Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garrett Lucius "Rube" Goldbergwas an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth4 July 1883
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Rube Goldberg quotes about
thinking people young
Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.
depression thinking littles
I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
believe mean thinking
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 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.
thinking personality wonder
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.
american-cartoonist everybody impressed kinds met names presidents
And I've met all kinds of people, oh, God, presidents and everybody else, and, I'm not too impressed with celebrity, with names now.
american-cartoonist anybody bit quite success
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 feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
sports fighting cartoon
When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
matter stills baloney
No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.
crazy appreciate quality
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.
writing engineering uranium-mining
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.
college years junior-year
And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
eye hands glad
And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.
earth care weight
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.
conservative republican
Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.