File Clerk: Everyone remembers where they were at the blackout. You?
K: That was a little before my time.
File Clerk: I was home with my folks. Then ten days of darkness. Every machine stopped cold. When the lights came back, we were wiped clean. Photos, files, every bit of data. Gone. Bank records, too. Didn't mind that. It's funny only paper lasted. I mean, we had everything on drives. Everything, everything, everything. My mom still cries over the lost baby pictures.
K: Well, it's a shame. You must have been adorable.
Freysa: Dying for the right cause. It's the most human thing we can do.
Niander Wallace: All the courage in the world cannot alter fact.
Rick Deckard: You don't have children, do you?
Niander Wallace: I have millions.
Rick Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine - they are either a benefit or a hazard. If they are a benefit, it's not my problem.
K: All the best memories are hers.
Joi: 4 symbols make a man: A, T, G and C. I am only two: 1 and 0.
Rick Deckard: I had your job once - I was good at it.
K: Things were simpler then.
Rick Deckard: Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger.
Answer: Think of any manufacturing process. Samples of new products are frequently created and then immediately destroyed. Also, the new replicant would require processing, training, etc. It was simpler for him to just dispose of the test.