Committees

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

—Charles Kettering

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

—Fred Allen

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

—George Will

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

—Robert Copeland

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

—Bradley's Bromide

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

—David Coblitz

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

—Edward Shepherd Mead

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

—Fred Allen

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

—Lester J. Pourciau

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

—Sir Barnett Cocks