Dominic Cummings

In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In…

— Dominic Cummings

MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope…

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

— 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

In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the…

— Dominic Cummings

When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more…

— Dominic Cummings

Britain could contribute huge value to the world by leveraging existing assets, including scientific talent and how the NHS is structured, to…

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings

Eitan Hersh wrote a book in 2015 called 'Hacking the Electorate.' It's pretty much the best book I've seen on the use…

— 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

If you look back at history, most important PR and propaganda was invented by the Communist Party.

— 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

Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that…

— 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

All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people…

— Dominic Cummings

There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.

— 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

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

Every failing organisation has the same stories, people find it very hard to learn from the most successful organisations and people.

— Dominic Cummings

Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of…

— Dominic Cummings

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings

I know from my days working on education reform in government that it's almost impossible to exaggerate how little those who work…

— Dominic Cummings