Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot read more

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant read more

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is read more

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy read more

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of read more

Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.