- Well, if we do get canned, we won't be the only ones to lose our jobs because of a machine.
- I understand thousands of people are being replaced by these electronic brains.
— Peg Costello (Joan Blondell)
10 seconds sound clip from the Desk Set (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- What do you suppose it'll be like here next Christmas when we're gone?
- Do you think EMMARAC will throw a party?
- Don't talk that way. It's bad luck to talk like that. It's Christmas!
- Well, if we do get canned, we won't be the only ones to lose our jobs because of a machine.
- I understand thousands of people are being replaced by these electronic brains.
- Hey! Look, this one's from Mildred Pittinger.
- I know what it is. It's a picture of herself and her husband.
- Ooh. Oh! They had a baby. Oh, it's cute.
[...]