I couldn't resist this extract from a letter by R. Beske from Seattle in yesterday's Financial Times.
On information (following an article by Michael Skapinker ' Companies need to cut through big data hype'), Beske writes these five maxims:
-The information you have is not what you want.
-The information you want is not what you need.
-The information you need is not what you can obtain.
-The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay.
-What you are willing to pay will get you exactly the information you already have.
I think these sage aphorisms apply to many walks of life, and no doubt to our efforts in translation.
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