Committees Quote by Norman Ralph Augustine Download Open image “The optimum committee has no members.” — Norman Ralph Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Committees Inspiration Members Optimum
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies… — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
