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 […]
Committee Quotes
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.
You’ll find in no park or city, a monument to a committee.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
