I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly.
— Gene Kranz (Ed Harris)
8 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:20:33 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- What about the scrubbers in the command module?
- They take square cartridges.
- The ones on the LEM are round.
- Tell me this isn't a government operation.
- This just isn't a contingency we've remotely looked at.
- Those CO2 levels will gonna be getting toxic.
- I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly.
- The people upstairs have handed us this one, and we gotta come through.
- We gotta find a way to make this fit into the hole for this using nothing but that.
[...]