What Does This Button Do?/Quotes

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If there is a button, then as a Crimson Demon, I can't rest until I've pressed it, even if I already know what it'll do!
—Megumin, Konosuba

What was the last thing said aboard the Challenger?

Gee, I wonder what this Big Red Button does...
Dead Baby Comedy on the Challenger space shuttle explosion.
"To press or not to press is the trial of humanity. Want to press, but I mustn't, want to press, but I mustn't! Why do people reach out for switches? Because the switches are there!"
Doctor Maki, commenting on Kamen Rider Fourze's Switches in the Kamen Rider OOO net movies.

Wonka: It can take you to any room in the whole factory just by pressing one of these buttons. Any of these buttons. Just press a button, and zing! You're off. And up until now, I've pressed them all... except one.
[gestures to a button near the top of the Wonkavator]
Wonka: This one. Go ahead, Charlie.
Charlie: Me?
[Wonka nods as Charlie presses the button]
Wonka: Faster, faster; if we don't pick up enough speed, we'll never get through!
Charlie: Get through what?
Wonka: Aha!
Grandpa Joe: You mean we're going...?
Wonka: Up and out!
Grandpa Joe: But this roof is made of glass! It'll shatter into a thousand pieces! We'll be cut to ribbons!
Wonka: Probably.
[In caution]
Wonka: HOLD ON, EVERYBODY! HERE IT COMES!
[the Wonkavator breaks through the roof glass and nobody was cut to ribbons]
Grandpa Joe: WOW! YOU DID IT, MR. WONKA! CONGRATULATIONS!