[…]planning operational use before embarking on R & D, ergonomics, explanation facilities (by which an expert system makes the basis of its decision or recommendation intelligible to the user) and demonstratability.

an embryonate plant

We can all start off feeling back-patty and warm with our secret selves, having identified a literary allusion.

For now I ſtand as one vpon a rocke, / Inuirond with a wildernes of ſea, / VVho markes the waxing tide, grow waue by waue, / Expecting euer when ſome enuious ſurge, / VVill in his briniſh bowels ſwallow him.