Interpreting Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those he swallowed in the past decades without saying them.

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

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.