To quote Cicero, rashness is the characteristic of youth, prudence that of mellowed age, and discretion the better part of valor.
— VINCENT LF-396 (Roddy Mcdowall)
8 seconds sound clip from the The Black Hole (1979) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:08:07.913 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- Reinhardt had the knack of making his own ambitions seem like a matter of national pride.
- He talked the Space Appropriations Committee into the costliest fiasco of all time.
- And refused to admit failure. Ignored his recall.
- Maybe not. Maybe it never got through.
- That ship just disappeared. They've never been seen again.
- Get us in close enough. Vincent and I could get aboard on tethers.
- No sense leaving the story of a lifetime untold, Captain.
- I believe there is. And it's looking straight at us.
- Picking up anything on the sensors?
- Negative. But with all that turbulence out there, our signal might not be getting through.
- According to my instruments, it hasn't moved a centimeter since we first spotted it.
- How can a lifeless derelict defy that kind of gravity?
- I don't know, but it's certainly worth investigating.
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