a camel is a horse designed by a committee

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1. Too many people on one project can spoil it by having conflicting or inexperienced ideas.

   Whoever concluded that a camel is a horse designed by a committee could have similar thoughts about taxicabs.

   1976, Popular Science, v.209 1976 Jul-Dec

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   A camel is a horse designed by a committee, so we hope that this committee will—and I think it will—function appropriately.

   1952, Proceedings Regular Meeting, Ohio Valley Transportation Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, page 24

   And we all know the saying, which is true as well as witty, that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

   1964, Peter and the Commissar, Allan Sherman and the Boston Pops

   If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, what is a materials policy statement prepared by seven study teams?

   1975, The Professional Geographer: The Journal of the Association of American Geographers, volume 27, page 132

   "A camel," it has been said, "is a horse designed by committee." This might sound like a telling example of the terrible deficiencies of committee decisions, but it is really much too mild an indictment.

   1998, The Possibility of Social Choice, Nobel Lecture, Amartya Sen

   "This is a presidential address, Andrea, not a camel (...) A camel! A horse built by committee!" (Toby Ziegler)

   2002,The West Wing, episode Night Five, original airdate February 6th, 2002