Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.

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

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

My best works are for me. Not for the world.

Power is the flower of organization.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

Success comes from a constant focus on renewal.

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.