Cyberspace Quote by Mary Norris Download Open image “Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.” — Mary Norris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cyberspace Love
“In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time;… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“...by tragic historical coincidence a period of abysmal under-educating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people who don't… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
My guy friend gets pissed when he looks up quotes and theirs something missing or misspelled from it. — Me Copy Share Image
If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book, but it looked really hard: how did you get all the lines to come out even on… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“I always forget that, in the popular imagination, the copy editor is a bit of a witch, and it surprises me when someone is… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
“Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is… — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
