Competente Quotes

“¿Le puedes echar un ojo a lo del mp3 tú que controlas?
Ya me estaba cansando del tema del control. Parece que en el mundo es mejor ser un inútil, te queda más tiempo libre.”
― Alfredo de Hoces, Memorias de un ingeniero

“That a text is untranslatable is too grandiose a
statement to utter. But in the matter of translating the Qur’an, a translator – though competent and discriminating as he might be – shall find it a persuasively challenging undertaking if not an impossible one. These
difficulties stem from many factors including semantic, linguistic, syntactic and lexical ones.”
― Ali Salami, The Magnificent Quran

“There is a particular kind of professional who arrives early, stays late, and leaves no trace. Not because they are unproductive. Because they are too productive to be visible.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Quiet Competent: Often Unseen. Rarely Recognized. Absolutely Irreplaceable.