3 Quotes & Sayings By Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was a cartoonist, inventor of machines which did things, and designer of a public art project called the Lincoln Logs. He is known for a series of his cartoons of people trying to get things done. His best known work, however, is from his machines.

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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. Rube Goldberg
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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