Kate Grenville

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

Australian Author

Story Musgrave

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

American Astronaut

Edward Sapir

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

American Scientist

Jonathan Miller

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

British Entertainer

Octavio Paz

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Mexican Poet

Kehinde Wiley

My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.

American Artist

Sofia Boutella

As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.

Algerian Actress

John Millington Synge

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Irish Poet

Rene Magritte

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Belgian Artist

Gillian Tans

Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.

American Businesswoman

Some translations may not capture cultural expressions or idioms accurately.

Cultural Nuances

Translations often require interpretation; they're not always word-for-word.

Non-Literal

Context can drastically change translation choices.

Context Matters

In physics, 'translation' refers to movement, not language.

Not About Language

It reflects a physical shift in position, not a metaphorical one.

Physical Process

In biology, 'translation' is a cellular process, not related to language.

Biology Specific

Translation interprets genetic information into a new form - proteins.

Genetic Information

 Here's the translation you get from the gang member. They're talking about the decision of why they don't go shoot -- One thing that turns out to be a great business tactic in the if you go and just shoot guns in the air in the other gang's territory -- people are afraid to go buy drugs there, they're going to come into your neighborhood. Here's what he says about why they don't do

The freakonomics of...

 Normally, you have to pay people to do this. So how are we going to motivate them to do it for free? When we were starting to think about this, we were blocked by these two things. But then we realized, there's a way to solve both these problems with the same solution. To kill two birds with one stone. And that is to transform language translation

Massive-scale online...

 But this is no easy task, and the sheer number of languages in the world, as well as the increasing interaction between the people who speak them, will only continue to spur greater advances in automatic translation. Perhaps by the time we encounter intergalactic life forms, we'll be able to communicate with them through a tiny gizmo,

How computers translate...

 stuck to their word, sent their translations back to me, and within six weeks, I had the entire book to read. In that case, as I found so often during my year of reading the world, my not knowing and being open about my limitations had become a big opportunity.

My year reading a book...

 We need to look at ways of creating serendipity, of making translation pervasive, and we need to find ways to embrace and celebrate these bridge figures. And we need to figure out how to cultivate xenophiles. That's what I'm trying to do. I need your help.

Ethan Zuckerman: How to...

 great book is that the people who did this who made these translations were not tucked away in the ivory tower of the University in their gravy necks and their gold rimmed spectacles they were deeply involved with the world politics

Adam Nicolson: The King...

 sent out a message that all the world should be taxed and/or a census taken depends on the translation and that everyone had to travel to their ancestral homeland to be counted scholars have a couple questions about

Fact-checking the Bible...

 That is why you called Pedral, big area with stones it would be the translation. So when we got to the waterfront immediately I could see that the nests, just one nest is really important is a big decision.

How One Penguin Started...

 and as for the written word, I'm OK at it but it's a tortuous process of translation, and I don't feel it does the job. And as far as speaking my own mind, like I said, I'm not great at it.

Three ideas. Three...

 better interfaces to help us coach our machines towards more useful intelligence. Human plus machine isn't the future, it's the present. Everybody that's used online translation