Set Right What Once Went Wrong/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

Guy: Benjamin Franklin?
Franklin: Yes?
Guy: I bring a message from the future! I don't have much time.
Franklin: What is it?
Guy: The convention you're setting for electric charge is backward. The one left on glass by silk should be the negative charge.

(We were going to use the time machine to prevent the robot apocalypse, but the guy who built it was an electrical engineer.)[1]
—Xkcd #567: Urgent Mission
"We travel through time to help history along - give it a push where it's needed. When the Omni's red, it means history's wrong. Our job is to get everything back on track."
—Voyagers! Opening
  1. ↑ "Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense."
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