Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Rube Goldberg
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 weighed.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

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.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg
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 lucky, that's all.

Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg
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
Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

Rube Goldberg
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 and took lessons.

Rube Goldberg
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 illiterate.