Quotes on committees
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Goldberg, Arthur
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.
Copeland, Robert
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.
Unknown, Author
Our age will be known as the age of committees.
Benn, Ernest
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Cocks, Barnett
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."
Barry, Dave
To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.
Unknown, Author
Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Will, George F.
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."
Sherman, Alan
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
Carré, John le
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.
Mencken, H.L.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Berle, Milton