“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”

“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something”

“Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.”

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”

“luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language.”

“It is the nature of languages that a pretty translation is not accurate, and an accurate translation finds its own beauty without help.”