Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

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.

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

The views of several individuals are assuredly preferable to one man, even as the power of a number of men is of course greater than the power of one man.

If in the first group of people who have gathered, unanimity is not achieved, new people shall be added, after which a group equal in number to the Greatest Name or fewer or greater shall be chosen from their midst by lots; whereupon the consultation shall be renewed; whatever is the result shall be obeyed. If the second time opinions again differ, repeat the process a third time. This time obey the majority vote.

God so loved the world, that he formed a committee, that whosoever attendeth on it should not perish, but have everlasting life in which to await a decision.

Having first ascertained the opinion of each minister separately and then the views of all together, let the king do what is most beneficial for him in his affairs.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Joint committees are heat generators rather than light producers.

The best … Committees consist of three persons, two of whom are always absent!

UNU provides a continuous feedback loop of the group's preference for a choice, as well as its conviction. People are adjusting their levels of conviction based on the completeness of their own knowledge on the subject.

A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.

Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.