conference

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is the birthplace of no grand ideas. Many foolish ideas, however, have died there.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald

is a big business term for swapping stories in somebody's office.

A conference is a big business term for swapping stories in somebody's office.

is a meeting at which people talk about things they should be doing.

A conference is a meeting at which people talk about things they should be doing.

is nothing more than an organized way of postponing a decision.

A conference is nothing more than an organized way of postponing a decision.

is a meeting to decide when the next meeting will be held