Rube Goldberg

“It is a symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results.”

“We have become a nation of button-pushers.”

“Political cartoons are not funny. They are savage.”

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

“My cartoons are not apologies for my engineering drawings; they are my engineering drawings.”

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.”

“I suppose I was a little bit of a tinkerer when I was a boy.”

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”