And as soon as it was installed, half the department disappeared!
5 seconds sound clip from the Desk Set (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:39:27 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- He's under special assignment to Azae to see if EMMARAC can be adapted to this department.
- That means the end of us all.
- Calm down. No machine can do our job.
- That's what they said in Payroll.
- Did he design the machine in Payroll?
- Yes!
- And as soon as it was installed, half the department disappeared!
- Well, the machine in Payroll is just a calculator.
- They can't build a machine to do our job. There are too many cross-references in this place.
- I'd match my memory against any machine's any day, and yours.
- Now, the worst thing that can happen is for us to get panicky.
- So let's keep this between me and you and not tell Ruthie and Sylvia.
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