In this scene from Delbert Mann's formulaic romantic comedy That Touch of Mink, Doris Day is goaded by a coworker to believe she has received preferential treatment from her boss (Cary Grant). Day angrily protests the accusation while inadvertently pressing a series of buttons on the computer control panel, including one marked "Master Control," which ultimately causes punch cards to erupt out of an entire room full of computers. "If I never work again at least I've done it on my own. I'm not like one of these machines that you push a button and it just does what you want it to do. Well push all you want. Push my buttons. I'm not a robot, I'm people. And I quit!"

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