If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during World War I.] - Ernest Rutherford
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. - Bradley's Bromide
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. - George F. Will
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. - Arthur Goldberg
Intuitively, Committee sounds like Come Eat it and almost everyone knows what happens with it. - Anuj Somany
Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head that they have nothing to say you haven't heard before and it's about time they disbanded until they have something positive to say. - Karon Waddell
Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct. - Ryan Lilly
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland
Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home. - Charles Sheffield
You can't suddenly know something just by assembling a committee of words! That's it! I'll assemble your comittee! - Hubert J, Farnsworth
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. - Sir Barnett Cocks
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. - Lester J. Pourciau
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. - Elbert Hubbard
The world is proof that God is a committee.
A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution."[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994] - Nelson Mandela
When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, 'Because I'm going to change the world some day. And I'm giving you the chance to say, We knew her when. - Sarah Thebarge
If you see a snake just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. - David Coblitz
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. - Milton Berle
We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child's most important fans! - Vivian Kirkfield