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• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
• He opens a tolm and begins.) It says: "In the beginning was the Word.
  Already I am stopped. It seems absurd. The Word does not deserve the highest prize, I must translate it otherwise....
• There is a general idea that a translation always fails to preserve some of the qualities that distinguish the original work .
  i.e., that 'something always gets lost in translation....