I beg your pardon!

What does the phrase:
"A camel is a horse designed by a committee"
mean?

It's an ironic expression, used to show that deciding anything by committee, and therefore by taking too many opinions and wish-lists into account, will result in something that's probably vaguely similar to what was originally planned, but which won't be anywhere near as effective as was wanted. A camel and a horse are both ungulates, but the point is that the camel's both ugly and slow in comparison.

ahem...

Camels are fast and graceful. We can keep running long after horses have given out. Beauty is a beauty does.

There, there. Don't get your back up.

There was a minority opinion on the committee and they made a second model with two humps - proof, if proof were needed.