{"topic":"committees","quotes":[{"quote":"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.","author":"Bradley's Bromide"},{"quote":"A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.","author":"David Coblitz"},{"quote":"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.","author":"Edward Shepherd Mead"},{"quote":"Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.","author":"Fred Allen"},{"quote":"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.","author":"Lester J. Pourciau"},{"quote":"To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.","author":"Robert Copeland"},{"quote":"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.","author":"Sir Barnett Cocks"}]}