31 Quotes by 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 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.

Be your own dentist!

Professor Butts walks in his sleep, strolls through a cactus field in his bare feet, and screams out an idea for a self-operating napkin.

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.

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.

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

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

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

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