If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee—that will do them in.

—Bradley's Bromide

More quotations tagged with “committees”

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

—Sir Barnett Cocks

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

—Lester J. Pourciau

Committee—a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

—Edward Shepherd Mead

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

—David Coblitz

History

11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.