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Task: Have your program randomly choose one of the following two quotes at runtime and print that one quote, exactly as shown.

1:

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me.
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.

2:

WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Restrictions: The words spreading, chestnut, PEACE, FREEDOM, and STRENGTH must appear in your code. No word from the above two quotes may appear in your code more than once.

Shortest solution wins.

@MartinBüttner not to be funny, but to suggest a more explicit rule. Reading first time I really tought I could choose a random one and then start to work. — edc65, Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 10:06

es1024 · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-05 21:34:56Z

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Perl (191 184 characters)

$_=$$&1?"0
I12321me6T4they,34we
06":"WAR5PEACE6FREEDOM5SLAVERY6IGNORANCE5STRENGTH6";s/\d/("Under the spreading chestnut tree"," sold ",you," and ","here lie "," IS ",".
")[$&]/ge;print

Thanks @core1024 for tips on golfing this.

edited Aug 5, 2014 at 21:34

answered Aug 2, 2014 at 7:56

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\$\begingroup\$ You can replace 6 with actual new lines, drop the quotes around "you" and use $$&1 as a random generator :) \$\endgroup\$
– core1024
Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 13:27

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 12:39:03Z

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PHP 179

Inspired by es1024's answer.

<?=strtr(rand()%2?"0
I 1 232 1 me.
T5 they,35 we
0.
":"WAR4PEACE.
FREEDOM4SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE4STRENGTH.
",["Under the spreading chestnut tree",sold,you," and "," IS ","here lie"]);

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answered Aug 6, 2014 at 18:27

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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Java, 338

I can't get it below 338...

class B{public static void main(String[]a){String b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=".\n",i=" IS ";if(Math.random()>.5)System.out.print(b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+h);else System.out.print("WAR"+i+"PEACE"+h+"FREEDOM"+i+"SLAVERY"+h+"IGNORANCE"+i+"STRENGTH"+h);}}

Bit ungolfed:

class B{public static void main(String[]a){String b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=".\n",i=" IS ";
if(Math.random()>.5)System.out.print(b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+h);
else System.out.print("WAR"+i+"PEACE"+h+"FREEDOM"+i+"SLAVERY"+h+"IGNORANCE"+i+"STRENGTH"+h);}}

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answered Aug 5, 2014 at 13:59

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\$\begingroup\$ Yes you can codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6671/…. \$\endgroup\$
– Fabinout
Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 14:29
\$\begingroup\$ Thanks for the link! Gonna search for something useful tomorrow. \$\endgroup\$
– CoolWilly
Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 14:40
\$\begingroup\$ @Fabinout I've tried a few tricks, but they didn't help. (java.io.PrintStream p=System.out, added 15 bytes to total, static<T>void p(T o){System.out.print(o);}, added 12). Any other suggestions? \$\endgroup\$
– CoolWilly
Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 7:11
\$\begingroup\$ use static block instead of a main declaration \$\endgroup\$
– Fabinout
Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 7:56
\$\begingroup\$ Static block *310 CHAR *: class B{static{String b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=".\n",i=" IS ";if(Math.random()>.5)System.out.print(b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+h);else System.out.print("WAR"+i+"PEACE"+h+"FREEDOM"+i+"SLAVERY"+h+"IGNORANCE"+i+"STRENGTH"+h);}} \$\endgroup\$
– Fabinout
Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 11:36

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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Javascript 229 254 256

Edit 1 using new Date as suggested by @Doorknob - still unclear to me how javascript Dates morph to strings or integers or whatever

Edit 2 simplified. A lot.

t=(new Date&1
   ?'0WAR0 IS 0PEACE0.\n0FREEDOM020SLAVERY040IGNORANCE020STRENGTH.'
   :'0Under the spreading chestnut tree0\nI 0sold 0you 0and 04030me.\nT0here lie 0they, 05090we\n010.'
  ).split(0);
for(i=o='';j=t[++i];)o+=t[j|0||i];alert(o)

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answered Aug 2, 2014 at 10:03

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\$\begingroup\$ new Date is shorter than Date.now() \$\endgroup\$
– Doorknob
Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 11:13
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\$\begingroup\$ To explain the Date conversion: > The JavaScript date is based on a time value that is milliseconds since midnight 01 January, 1970 UTC. A day holds 86,400,000 milliseconds. The JavaScript Date object range is -100,000,000 days to 100,000,000 days relative to 01 January, 1970 UTC., when you & it it's automatically cast to a Number. So you're basically making the random choice based on whether it's an even or odd millisecond since the 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z epoch. \$\endgroup\$
– Bob
Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 13:47
\$\begingroup\$ @Doorknob could you write a short article for that shorter random number generator in codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2682/… Haven't seen it there yet and I think it could be quite useful. \$\endgroup\$
– flawr
Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 22:23
\$\begingroup\$ @flawr Done \$\endgroup\$
– Doorknob
Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 23:21

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Abbas · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-06 14:56:15Z

C# (268)(260) (256)

This is executable in LINQPad, using the Dump() method:

string b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=" IS ";if(new Random().Next(9)>4)(b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+".").Dump();else("WAR"+h+"PEACE.\nFREEDOM"+h+"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE"+h+"STRENGTH.").Dump();

Ungolfed:

string b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=" IS ";

if(new Random().Next(9)>4)
    (b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+".").Dump();
else
    ("WAR"+h+"PEACE.\nFREEDOM"+h+"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE"+h+"STRENGTH.").Dump();

Update:

Using the ternary operator and 1 extra variable, I was able to cut another 6 characters:

string a,b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=" IS ";a=new Random().Next(9)>4?(b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+"."):("WAR"+h+"PEACE.\nFREEDOM"+h+"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE"+h+"STRENGTH.");a.Dump();

Ungolfed:

string a,b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=" IS ";

a=new Random().Next(9)>4 ?
    (b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+".") :
    ("WAR"+h+"PEACE.\nFREEDOM"+h+"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE"+h+"STRENGTH.");

a.Dump();

Update2:

Thanks to the ingenious suggestion of tsavinho I was able to save 4 more chars by placing braces around the ternary operation:

string b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=" IS ";(new Random().Next(9)>4?(b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+"."):("WAR"+h+"PEACE.\nFREEDOM"+h+"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE"+h+"STRENGTH.")).Dump();

Ungolfed:

string b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=" IS ";
(new Random().Next(9)>4?
    (b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+"."):
    ("WAR"+h+"PEACE.\nFREEDOM"+h+"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE"+h+"STRENGTH.")
).Dump();

You could save 4 more characters by removing a and replacing it with brackets like this: string b="Under the spreading chestnut tree",c="sold ",d="you ",e="and ",f="me.\nT",g="here lie ",h=" IS ";(new Random().Next(9)>4?(b+"\nI "+c+d+e+d+c+f+g+"they, "+e+g+"we\n"+b+"."):("WAR"+h+"PEACE.\nFREEDOM"+h+"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE"+h+"STRENGTH.")).Dump(); — tsavinho, Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 14:51

Vectorized · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-02 16:32:47Z

Python 3 - 228

for x in[b"AB:87078@624>049BA6",b"?;<61;=63;56"][id(id)%3-1]:print("and |FREEDOM|T|IGNORANCE|here lie |STRENGTH|.\n|you |sold |we|I | IS |PEACE|SLAVERY|they, |WAR|me|Under the spreading chestnut tree|\n".split("|")[x-48],end="")

Slightly ungolfed:

# id(id) returns an even number based on memory address of id
# id(id)%3-1 gives -1, 0 or 1
randomNumber = id(id)%3-1

# Word list
words = "and |FREEDOM|T|IGNORANCE|here lie |STRENGTH|.\n|you |sold |we|I | IS |PEACE|SLAVERY|they, |WAR|me|Under the spreading chestnut tree|\n".split("|")

# Byte Literals for Under the chestnut and WAR IS PEACE
# each byte correspond to the word's index in the word list
byteLiterals = [b"AB:87078@624>049BA6", b"?;<61;=63;56"]
choice = byteLiterals[randomNumber]

for x in choice: 
    print(words[x-48], end="") # Print each word out

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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PowerShell 205

("{0}.`nI{1}{2}{3}{2}{1} me.`nT{4}they,{3} {4}we`n{0}."-f"Under the spreading chestnut tree"," sold"," you"," and","here lie "),("WAR","PEACE.`nFREEDOM","SLAVERY.`nIGNORANCE","STRENGTH."-join" IS ")|Random

Uses the -f operator to put strings on the first quote, and the second one is joined by IS, after that it selects a random element of those 2 quotes and prints it...

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answered Aug 5, 2014 at 14:54

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\$\begingroup\$ Easy 5 bytes by swapping out the `ns \$\endgroup\$
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Commented Jan 22, 2020 at 16:19

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bacchusbeale · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-06 11:51:41Z

1

JavaScript / jQuery 396

var B={
U:"Under the spreading chestnut tree",
s:"sold ",
y:"you ",
l:"lie ",
a:"and ",
i:"IS ",
b:"</br>"
};
var A={
P:B.U+B.b+"I "+B.s+B.y+B.a+B.y+B.s+"me."+B.b
+"There "+B.l+"they, "+B.a+"here "+B.l+"we."+B.b+B.U,
Q:"WAR "+B.i+"PEACE."+B.b+"FREEDOM "+B.i+"SLAVERY."+B.b
+"IGNORANCE "+B.i+"STRENGTH."
};
$(function(){
var z=(Math.random()<0.5)?A.P:A.Q; 
$('#d').append(z);
});

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

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T-SQL, 337 327

Just for fun, I've made another solution in T-SQL, which is one byte shorter than my Java 8 solution:

DECLARE @b char(33)='Under the spreading chestnut tree',@c char(5)='sold',@d char(4)='you',@e char(4)='and',@f char(9)='here lie',@ char='
',@h char(4)=' IS'IF rand()>.5PRINT @b+@+'I '+@c+@d+@e+@d+@c+'me.'+@+'T'+@f+'they, '+@e+@f+'we'+@+@b+'.'ELSE PRINT'WAR'+@h+'PEACE.'+@+'FREEDOM'+@h+'SLAVERY.'+@+'IGNORANCE'+@h+'STRENGTH.'

By declaring the chars one too long, you can add an 'automatic' space, saving up a few bytes.

Using the code in the proposed edit by user PenutReaper, you can indeed shave off 10 bytes.

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answered Aug 6, 2014 at 13:39

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\$\begingroup\$ Using a variable for carriage returns isn't worth it. Just use literal ones. \$\endgroup\$
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user · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-05 17:14:24Z

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JavaScript, 233 bytes

Math.random()>0.5?(a="Under the spreading chestnut tree")+"\nI "+(s="sold")+(y=" you ")+(n="and")+y+s+" me.\nT"+(h="here ")+(l="lie ")+"they "+n+" "+h+l+"we\n"+a+".":["WAR","PEACE.\nFREEDOM","SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE","STRENGTH."].join(" IS ")

Wrote this without looking at other answers. Makes good use of assignments as expressions.

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Grimmy · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-22 14:23:42Z

0

05AB1E, 119 bytes

“‚â€€ spreading chestnutíÍ““Iïê€î€ƒ€îïê€á.““€Çº¤€»,€ƒ€Îº¤€¦“).ªĆ»‘‡î€ˆ PEACE.
FREEDOM€ˆÃÒRY.
IGNORANCE€ˆ STRENGTH‘)'.«Ω

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answered Jan 22, 2020 at 14:23

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Jitse · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-22 14:50:33Z

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Python 3, 222 bytes

a,b,c,d,e,f='Under the spreading chestnut tree',' you ',' lie ','and','sold',' IS '
print({f'{a}\nI {e}{b}{d}{b}{e} me.\nThere{c}they, {d} here{c}we\n{a}.',f'WAR{f}PEACE.\nFREEDOM{f}SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE{f}STRENGTH.'}.pop())

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girobuz · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-27 21:54:07Z

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C (gcc), 307 289 271 270 bytes

-37 bytes thanks to ceilingcat

*y=" IS ";main(){int*r[]={"WAR",y,"PEACE.\nFREEDOM",y,"SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE",y,"STRENGTH.",0,"Under the spreading chestnut tree","\nI"," sold ","you"," and ",r[11],r[10],"me.\n","T","here lie ","they,",r[12],r[17],"we\n",r[8],".",0},z=r;for(z=z/2&8;r[z];)printf(r[z++]);}

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Perl (191 184 characters)

PHP 179

Java, 338

Javascript 229 254 256

C# (268)(260) (256)

Python 3 - 228

PowerShell 205

JavaScript / jQuery 396

T-SQL, 337 327

JavaScript, 233 bytes

05AB1E, 119 bytes

Python 3, 222 bytes

C (gcc), 307 289 271 270 bytes

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Javascript 229 254 256

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