Committees Quote by Ferdinand Porsche

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can…

— Fred Allen

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.

— Green Monk

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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

— Fred Allen

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

— Fred Allen

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

— Betsy DeVos

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

— Richard Harkness

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises…

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

“We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the…

— Charles Stross

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

— Antony Jay

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

— Celia Green