tbornottb built an actual functioning (digital) Weasley clock, to show the location of family members:
It is perfectly wonderful.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C Clarke, 1973.
This may be a borrowing, possibly unconscious, from H. Rider Haggard's fiction She (1886),
Have I not told thee that there is no such thing as magic, though there is such a thing as understanding and applying the forces which are in Nature?Of course,
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.However the wiring diagrams and other tech for the clock seem quite plausible.
- Ben Franklin, or was it Abe Lincoln ? hard to find a definitive source for this one..
Continuing with the quote theme, one of my favorites:
Oh, oobee doo (hoopdeewee)
I wanna be like you-hoo-hoo (hapdeedoobydoowop)
- Louis Prima, 1967
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