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
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.
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.
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.
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.
book cartoon paper
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
conservative republican
Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.
lasts serious lucky
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.