Clock of the Long Now

Published on Saturday, July 26th 2008 and last revised July 26, 2022 at 1:21 pm
Classification: Asides • Taxonomy: Miscellanea

“I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years.”

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