No. 16 “That’s design by committee.”
Translation
everyone got a say. It shows.
Feedback makes work better. Ten people steering at once makes it a mess.
Get everyone’s input, then let one person decide.
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Collect opinions. Pick one decider.
Where it comes from
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee” shows up in Sports Illustrated in 1957.
A 1954 Reader’s Digest quip by T. R. Quaife came close. Car designer Alec Issigonis later got the credit, but nobody knows who said it first.
- Quote Investigator, “A Camel Is a Horse That Was Designed by a Committee” (2023)
- Sports Illustrated (December 1957)
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