"A Rube Goldberg machine or device is any exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised such pataphysical devices. A Rube Goldberg machine usually has at least ten steps. The best examples of his machines have an anticipation factor: the fact that something so wacky is happening can only be topped by it happening in a suspenseful manner."

Deuxième festival de la filme Pataphysique, a l’île de Curaçao
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Academie Néerlandaise pour la ’Pataphysique & Instituto de Estudios Patafísicos de las islas adyacentes a la Terra Firme