I suddenly realised, that there is no point at getting together just because you´re always have a meeting… I don´t really want to come in until I know what we´re discussing and why we´re discussing and whether we need a decision.
And everybody thought I was being very awkward and they now actually rather like it because we now get through our meetings in a third of the time and cancel the ones that we don´t need.
— John Cleese about “Meetings, bloody Meetings” in the Dick Cavett Show.
1979… Nineteen Seventy Nine!