"A group that takes minutes and wastes hours."
--anon.
"A group of the unfit appointed by the unwilling
to do the unnecessary."
--Carl C. Byers
"We always carry out by committee anything in
which any of us alone would be too reasonable to
persist."
--Frank Moore Colby
"To get something done a committee should consist
of no more than three men, two of whom are absent."
--Robert Copeland
"Committee work is like a soft chair - easy to
get into but hard to get out of."
--Kenneth J. Shively
"Meetings.... are rather like cocktail parties. You
don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked."
--Jilly Cooper
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want
to do anything"
--J. K. Galbraith
"The Law of Triviality:- Briefly stated, it means
that the time spent on any item of the agenda
will be in inverse proportion to the sum
involved."
--C. Northcote Parkinson
Haha! Agree?
They come from a book called "The Penguin Dictionary
of Modern Humorous Quotations" published by
Penguin.