
The New Yorker: "Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet (19 March 2018)
The Dresden Files short stories, Restoration of Faith
The New Yorker: "Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet (19 March 2018)
The Savage Nation (1995- ), 2016
Statement to his friend, the Count of Egmont, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison p. 76
“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
This has appeared as a variant of Sun Tzu's assertion to "leave a way of escape." Tu Mu, commenting on Sun Tzu, advises, "Show him there is a road to safety..." Ch. 7; it has also recently appeared on the internet attributed to Scipio Africanus, but without citation.
Disputed
“There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.”
Mark Michaels Quoted in The Billboard Book of Rock Arranging (1990)
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”