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> [Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/back-in-the-twentieth-century-we-thought-that-robots-would-have-taken/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

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## More by Mary Norris

> [One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/one-of-the-things-i-like-about-my-job-is-that-it-draws-on-the-entire/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/punctuation-is-a-deeply-conservative-club-it-hardly-ever-admits-a-new/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/there-is-a-phase-in-the-life-of-every-copy-editor-when-she-is/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/back-in-the-twentieth-century-we-thought-that-robots-would-have-taken/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/the-english-language-is-full-of-words-that-are-just-waiting-to-be/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/commas-like-nuns-often-travel-in-pairs/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out even on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/i-always-wanted-to-write-a-book-but-it-looked-really-hard-how-did-you/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/everybody-is-a-writer-everybody-uses-e-mail-and-has-facebook-pages/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/something-there-is-in-cyberspace-that-doesn-t-love-an-apostrophe/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [“I always forget that, in the popular imagination, the copy editor is a bit of a witch, and it surprises me when someone is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/i-always-forget-that-in-the-popular-imagination-the-copy-editor-is-a/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/why-if-there-is-alphabet-soup-do-we-not-have-punctuation-cereal/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/the-dictionary-is-a-wonderful-thing-but-you-can-t-let-it-push-you/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/the-comma-if-it-s-left-out-sometimes-can-be-a-problem-there-s-a/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/nobody-knows-everything-one-of-the-pleasures-of-language-is-that/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

> [Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-norris/many-survivors-refuse-to-talk-about-what-they-went-through-but-i-ve/)

[Mary Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-norris/)

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