A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing....
It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.
There is a whole school of thought that holds bureaucracy tends to expand according to a kind of perverse but inescapable inner logic. The argument runs as follows: if you create a bureaucratic struct...