Dominic Cummings

Westminster has let the whole country down for many years.

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

Usually in politics everything is done on hunches.

— Dominic Cummings

It is hard to change people's minds.

— Dominic Cummings

Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

— Dominic Cummings

CRISPR editing will allow us to enhance ourselves.

— 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

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

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

— Dominic Cummings

If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people…

— 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

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

— Dominic Cummings

The Single Market is no-where defined in the E.U. treaties. If you suddenly ask people to define the Single Market, the number…

— Dominic Cummings

Inevitably, the world of 'communications' / PR / advertising / marketing is full of charlatans flogging snake oil. It is therefore very…

— 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

Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high…

— Dominic Cummings

Fundamental to real expertise is 1: whether the informational structure of the environment is sufficiently regular that it's possible to make good…

— 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

CRISPR-enabled 'gene drives' enable us to make changes to the germ-line of organisms permanent such that changes spread through the entire wild…

— 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

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

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

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

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

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings