Info: Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author. His cartoons were, as he said, symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results.
and depicted absurdly-connected machines functioning in extremely complex and roundabout ways to produce a simple end result. Because of this, the term 'Rube Goldberg' has become associated with any convoluted system of achieving a basic task.
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