Etymology

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

Today it means: Too many people on one project can spoil it by having conflicting or inexperienced ideas. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

The distinguishing features of a camel, like its humps, plate-shaped feet, habitual spitting, strange shape and poor temperament, can be seen as the sort of deformities that typify the sort of ideas that committees come up with that make projects bad.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.