Jon Gertner
@jongertner.bsky.social
Writing about climate, science, and technology at the NYTMagazine; author of The Idea Factory (on Bell Labs) and The Ice at the End of the World (on Greenland). Working on a book about NASA’s Voyager mission.
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
Oh, I quite like that.
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oh, I quite like that.
Very well put. My thoughts exactly.
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Very well put. My thoughts exactly.