“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Alan Turing Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Source: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 460.
Source: Computing machinery and intelligence
in "Who Discovered the Galaxy - Presidential Address – 1985", Heather Couper, British Astron. Assoc. Journal V. 96, No. 5 (1986), p. 293, Bibliographic Code: 1986JBAA...96..284C
Context: "Have we discovered our Galaxy yet?" And I think the answer to this question is "No, not quite". There is plenty of work ahead for the next generation of astronomers.
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Alan Turing Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Source: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 460.
Source: Computing machinery and intelligence
“There is plenty of work for love to do.”
Alexander McCall Smith book Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Source: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
“There is work in plenty for all hands- officers and men.”
Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
Excerpt from Atlantic Fleet Confidential Memorandum 2CM-41, sent on 24 March 1941. As quoted in History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume One: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 (1948) by Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 52
Nigel Calder (1931–2014) British science writer
Opening words, p. 7
Violent Universe (1969)
Thomas Young (scientist) (1773–1829) English polymath
Preface, p. x
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) American theologian and writer
" Wanted, a Statesman! http://books.google.com/books?id=oSNYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+politician%22+%22is+a+man+who+thinks+of+the+next+election+while+the+statesman+thinks+of+the+next+generation%22&pg=PA644#v=onepage", Old and New magazine, December 1870.
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
Message to the Participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1 December 2019) http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20191201_messaggio-carolina-schmidt.html <br class="br">2010s, 2019