Dominic Cummings

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

Do some companies have great power? Yes but only in limited ways.

— Dominic Cummings

Westminster has let the whole country down for many years.

— Dominic Cummings

CRISPR editing will allow us to enhance ourselves.

— Dominic Cummings

Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

— Dominic Cummings

It is hard to change people's minds.

— Dominic Cummings

Usually in politics everything is done on hunches.

— Dominic Cummings

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

— Dominic Cummings

The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem.

— Dominic Cummings

People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.

— Dominic Cummings

We need organisations like Vote Leave to operate permanently to give a voice to those who otherwise won't be heard.

— Dominic Cummings

Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena.

— Dominic Cummings

Brexit cannot be done with the traditional Westminster/Whitehall system as Vote Leave warned repeatedly before 23 June 2016.

— Dominic Cummings

Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave - she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won.

— Dominic Cummings

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

— Dominic Cummings

People in politics tend to spend far too much time on higher profile issues affecting few people and too little time on…

— Dominic Cummings

In the political world, big established failing systems control the rules, suck in more and more resources rather than go bust, make…

— Dominic Cummings

Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook…

— Dominic Cummings

The E.U. has narrowed our horizons. It has narrowed everyone's horizons in Whitehall so they're not thinking about the big things in…

— Dominic Cummings

Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g 'witch doctor') to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels)…

— Dominic Cummings

A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.

— Dominic Cummings

In a large bureaucracy, it is vital to keep eyes on the grassroots as they almost always will give you warning of…

— Dominic Cummings

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of…

— Dominic Cummings

The stock market is an exploitable market where being right means you get rich and you help the overall system error-correct which…

— Dominic Cummings

One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run…

— Dominic Cummings

Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the…

— Dominic Cummings

While our ancestor chiefs at least had some intuitive feel for important variables like agriculture and cavalry our contemporary chiefs (and those…

— Dominic Cummings

If you go back to the Euro campaign in 1999, how many chief executives and chairmen of FTSE 100 companies were speaking…

— Dominic Cummings

If we want leaders to make good decisions amid huge complexity, and learn how to build great teams, then we should send…

— Dominic Cummings

In many areas, the E.U. regulates to help the worst sort of giant corporate looters defending their position against entrepreneurs. Post-Brexit Britain…

— Dominic Cummings

People think, and by the way I think most people are right: 'The Tory party is run by people who basically don't…

— Dominic Cummings

Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics.

— Dominic Cummings

I make judgments about people and ideas individually - for me, parties are just a vehicle of convenience.

— Dominic Cummings

In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.

— Dominic Cummings

Facebook, like great politicians, surfs waves that it very rarely (if ever) creates.

— Dominic Cummings

Billionaires who want to influence politics could get better 'returns on investment' than from early stage Amazon.

— Dominic Cummings

We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor.

— Dominic Cummings

I want people to understand the barriers to serious government in order that more people take action.

— Dominic Cummings

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

— Dominic Cummings

MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings.

— Dominic Cummings