A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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 politics is a committee.