[Wellington-pm] Meeting this Tuesday (October 11th)
Cliff Pratt
enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Oct 11 14:33:36 PDT 2016
On 11/10/16 16:43, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yertle_the_Turtle_and_Other_Stories
Cliff
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