See if you can guess which of the following are bona fide Troy Vasiga quotes, and which ones are from the movie Troy.
"Your program will be trying to calculate 4!, and it will say 1072593. The best way to solve this problem is to use the rm * command."
"Don't call me unless something really really bad happened, i.e. you died."
"It turns out that this assumption has the teeny tiny flaw that it is always wrong."
"I can tell a computer what to do in other ways, some involving my fist and a sledgehammer."
"You want me to look upon your army and tremble. Well I see them, I see fifty thousand men come here for one man's greed. And I see them and say that no son of Troy shall ever submit to a foreign ruler."
"This is the C-section of the course where we give birth to a compiler."
"Nice. Ugly. Nice. Ugly. This is all they do in art appreciation."
"Tomorrow we'll batter down the gates of Troy. I'll build monuments for victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve Agamemnon in the stones."
"Of course, you're old enough to drink and vote and have sex, so why not use a GOTO method too?"
"I suggest that you don't drink, vote, and have sex at the same time, because the pollsters don't like that."
"It'll be a walk in the park. Of course, the park will be spongy and coloured purple, but it will be a walk in the park."
"At the end of the day, you could be in a bed, which is a good final state. Or you could be in a bad final state: Turkish jail."
"You won't have eyes tonight, you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know, 'This is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.'"
"Once I am in the error state, I never leave it. It's kind of like Scarborough."
"They probably didn't say 'an alphabet is a finite set of symbols' in grade one. They could have, but they didn't."
"Compilers typically don't tell you: 'Warning: check the newsgroup again.' "
"The last time you spoke to me like this you were ten years old and had just stolen father's horse... what have you done now?"
"I think you're wrong that you think you're wrong. That is, I think you're right."
"Computer scientists are concerned with only two things: when Star Trek is on, and how they can be lazier."
"I'm not going to teach you all of CS 246. That would take me 15-20 minutes or so."
"I have endured what no one on earth has endured. I have kissed the hands of the man who killed my son. "
"Tricky part of a queue is know when to stop writing ue's. Queueueueueueue..."
"Nobody will get less than zero for this course. It's reassuring. [Pause.] Mostly because Quest would explode."
"We begin getting you enthusiatic about computer science and we show you the dumbest algorithm we have. Wow, I really want to go into this field now."
"The gods envy us... because every breath might be our last. Everything's more beautiful that way. "
"The term 'heap' is overloaded. The term 'overloaded' is overloaded. The term 'term' is overloaded."
"I see a red root and I want to paint it black. The Rolling Stones wrote that song about red-black trees. It was the late 1960s, they were doing drugs and working with data structures."
"Say your dad is a supporter of the Reform party, and you are a member of the NDP. Words like 'racist' and 'pinko' tend to get thrown around the dinner table and things get a little tense, while your mom sits eating away."
"Your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom."
"When you're on the highway 407, you know you have to pay money, or the owner of the car will have to pay. Might be your dad, your mom, or the person you just carjacked from."
"It's good to have empty sets around, in case you need to go somewhere. Lots of room to pack your luggage."
"Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing you're riding beside me. I'll feel much better. "
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