- Rube Goldberg (Reuben Lucius Goldberg), born in San Francisco 4th July 1883, - 1970. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author.
- A founding member of the National Cartoonist Society, a political cartoonist and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Rube was a beloved national figure as well as an often-quoted radio and television personality during his sixty year professional career.
- He was best known for his “inventions”, Rube’s early years as an engineer informed his most acclaimed work. A Rube Goldberg contraption – an elaborate set of arms, wheels, gears, handles, cups and rods, put in motion by balls, canary cages, pails, boots, bathtubs, paddles and live animals – takes a simple task and makes it extraordinarily complicated.
"A project that is too well planned lacks opportunities for spontaneity and creativity'.
I feel this quote fits with Goldberg as he is reinterpreting objects and using creativity to create them another function. As quoted, Goldberg takes a 'simple task' and makes it into something complicated therefore suggesting that a simple plan lacks creativity, and so he then completely complicates it into something extraordinary.
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