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

- 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 an…

- Rube Goldberg

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

- 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 perso…

- 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 lu…

- Rube Goldberg

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

- 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 illi…

- 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

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 weighe…

- Rube Goldberg