Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless.
7 seconds sound clip from the WarGames (1983) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:23:00 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Except that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.
- Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.
- What kind of lesson is that?
- Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?
- No. Why?
- Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.
- Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless.
- So you gave up? Decided to play dead?
- For security reasons, they graciously arranged my death.
- Did you know that no land animal with a body weight of over 50 pounds survived that age?
- Extinction is part of the natural order.
[...]
Sound clips of quotes, sayings and sound effects sampled from the WarGames movie soundboard that you can use as ringtones. All audio files are in wav and mp3 format.
Actors: Matthew Broderick (David Lightman), Dabney Coleman (John McKittrick), John Wood (Stephen Falken and Joshua/WOPR), Ally Sheedy (Jennifer Mack), Barry Corbin (General Jack Beringer)
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