“What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?”
George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer
Source: Real Presences (1989), I: A Secondary City, Ch. 6 (p. 36).
“The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.”
To a writer who complained that his work was being changed.
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Fred Brooks (1931) American computer scientist
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