[Wellington-pm] Meeting this Tuesday (October 11th)

Ewen McNeill perl at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz
Mon Oct 10 20:43:49 PDT 2016


On 11/10/16 15:38, Andrew Maguire wrote:
> I recall the phrase from Stephen Hawking's book:
> https://www.quora.com/Phrase-Origins-What-do-people-mean-when-they-say-its-turtles-all-the-way-down

Which is a fairly recent version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

(I first came across it via Terry Pratchett's Discworld -- from the 
1980s -- where it seemed to fit in well, but it seems like it's quite a 
bit older than that)

Ewen


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