Rube Goldberg Thinking Quotations

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

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

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.

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.