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Young man, these devices, self-serviced, self-maintained have stood exactly as you see them for 2000 centuries.

11 seconds sound clip from the Forbidden Planet (1956) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:58:22 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Otherwise, my researches here would've come to nothing... poor as they have been.

- Recently, I have turned up some rather puzzling indications that in those final days before their annihilation, the Krell had been applying their entire racial energies to a new project.

- One which they actually seemed to hope might somehow free them once and for all from any dependence on physical instrumentalities.

- A civilization without instrumentalities?

- Incredible.

- Everything here is new. Not a sign of age or wear on any of it.

- Young man, these devices, self-serviced, self-maintained have stood exactly as you see them for 2000 centuries.

- Two thousand centuries. And during all this time, what was the power source?

- That's a very good question.

- May I draw your attention to these gauges all around here, gentlemen.

- Their calibrations appear to indicate that they are set in decimal series.

- Each division recording exactly 10 times as many amperes as the one preceding it.

[...]

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Actors: Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Edward Morbius), Anne Francis (Altaira "Alta" Morbius), Leslie Nielsen (Commander John J. Adams), Robby the Robot (Marvin Miller)

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