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To get something done a committee should
consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.
Robert Copeland
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. Milton
Berle
To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. Author
Unknown
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race
has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that
word would be "meetings." Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50
Years to Learn"
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees.
That'll do them in. Author Unknown
Our age will be known as the age of committees. Ernest Benn
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then
quietly strangled. Barnett Cocks, attributed
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at
the dock. Arthur Goldberg
A committee is an animal with four back legs. John le Carrι,
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and
omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of
gods. H.L. Mencken
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a
committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it
comes out gray." Alan Sherman
Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about
American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man
can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. Author
Unknown
A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do
the unnecessary. Author Unknown
If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
Author Unknown
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa
painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They
spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of
God to the finger of Adam. Alfred Whitney Griswold
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us
alone would be too reasonable to persist. Frank Moore Colby
I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a
country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. Arnold
Toynbee
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
Lester J. Pourciau
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who
are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have
to. Katharine Whitehorn
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell
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Quotations about Committees & Meetings