All committee reports conclude that “it is not prudent to change the policy. (or procedure, or organization, or whatever) at this time.”
Committee Quotes
Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.
Occasionally, perhaps twice a week, he (Winston) went to a dusty, forgotten-looking office in the Ministry of Truth and did a little work, or what was called work. He had been appointed to a sub-committee of a sub-committee which had sprouted from one of the innumerable committees dealing with minor difficulties that arose in the […]
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The optimum committee has no members.
A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.
A committee is an animal with four back legs.
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.
Socrates was killed by a committee.
