Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Ineke Botter

Quote by Ineke Botter

“Shortly after that nerve-racking event, Minister Delikatny, whom I really liked, did indeed disappear, but at least UMC was ‘in formation’. UMC would make a real and huge change in this highly secretive world. I still had a long to-do list. First, I needed to open a bank account to transfer the share capital. There was only one, very new, international bank, the First Ukrainian bank, a subsidiary of a Dutch bank that I hoped would be able to help. No such luck, there were no transfer processes in place yet. I decided to simply put the required USD 10,000 in my shoes next time I would travel. Fifty notes in each shoe was surely not a problem. I delivered the money to the bank on my next stay in Kiev and we were up and running. We could officially start building now.”

Quote by Ineke Botter

Book:Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?
Create image

Work

Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Ineke Botter

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Ineke Botter. more

You May Also Like

“Una delle ragioni per cui il mondo non è ancora scomparso è forse che, anche nei momenti più drammatici, c'è sempre qualcuno che impassibile guarda da un'altra parte. Dei cerchi nella sabbia... Il frontone di una casa a Delft... A bordo di una nave i cui cannoni si stanno preparando a sostenere i loro argomenti di vita e di morte, c'è un uomo completamente assorto nell'osservazione del passaggio di Venere. Per noi che cerchiamo di seguire la storia di Niebuhr e dei suoi compagni duecento anni dopo, quando altre rampe di lancio vengono preparate per ben altre detonazioni, vi è quasi un che di consolatorio in questa immagine. Anche noi vorremmo osservare questi lontani avvenimenti con tutta la precisione possibile, ma anche il nostro astrolabio a volte trema un po’...”

InspirationalWarScienceHope
Book:Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
Create image

“I would be utterly emabarrassed to have others around me hear my half of what can only be described as pedestrian. "Yes, the elevator has just pulled up to the 16th floor." Do these people have the ability to go, for say, an eight- or ten-minute stretch without being in contact with someone else? What are they afraid of? Confronting their own thoughts?”

Cell Phones
Book:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
Create image

“It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.”

Cell Phones
Book:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
Create image

“We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.”

EducationStudentsPopular CultureCell PhonesAdolescents
Book:Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
Create image