This Island Earth Quote

[a mysterious catalog is delivered]
Dr. Cal Meacham: This isn't paper, it's some kind of metal! [reads]
Dr. Cal Meacham: Iterociter incorporating planetary generator. Iterociter with voltarator. With astroscope.
Joe Wilson: Here's something my wife could use in the house. An iterociter incorporating an electron sorter.
Dr. Cal Meacham: Oh, she'd probably gain 20 pounds while it did all the work for her. You know, Joe, according to this, there's no limit to what it can do. Laying a 4-lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch.
Joe Wilson: Cal... maybe we've been working too hard.
Dr. Cal Meacham: Complete line of iterociter parts, incorporating greater advances than hitherto known in the field of electronics. What exactly is an iterociter?
Joe Wilson: I don't know, and I don't want to know.
Dr. Cal Meacham: Well, I do. I want to know what it is and what it does. Order the list of parts on these pages.

Movie: This Island Earth

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