In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor. — Dominic Cummings Doctor Copy Share Image
I want people to understand the barriers to serious government in order that more people take action. — Dominic Cummings Action Copy Share Image
Billionaires who want to influence politics could get better 'returns on investment' than from early stage Amazon. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Facebook, like great politicians, surfs waves that it very rarely (if ever) creates. — Dominic Cummings Facebook Copy Share Image
Brexit cannot be done with the traditional Westminster/Whitehall system as Vote Leave warned repeatedly before 23 June 2016. — Dominic Cummings Brexit Copy Share Image
Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave - she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won. — Dominic Cummings Awesome Copy Share Image
I know from my nightclub days that when local cops need to show a fall in crime for political reasons there are… — Dominic Cummings Crime Copy Share Image
Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their… — Dominic Cummings Bureaucracies Copy Share Image
The biggest problem for governments with new technologies is that the limiting factor on applying new technologies is not the technology but… — Dominic Cummings Change Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the civil service is the way in which people are shuffled such that they either do not… — Dominic Cummings Civil service Copy Share Image
It is very very hard for humans to lift our eyes from today and to go out into the future and think… — Dominic Cummings Eyes Copy Share Image
Markets and science show that some fields of human endeavour work much better than political decision-making. I think we could do much… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Regardless of political affiliation most of the policy/media world, as a subset of 'the educated classes' in general, tended to hold a… — Dominic Cummings Blank slate Copy Share Image
Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that… — Dominic Cummings Government Copy Share Image
One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
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 Customer Copy Share Image
If we want leaders to make good decisions amid huge complexity, and learn how to build great teams, then we should send… — Dominic Cummings Experience Copy Share Image
While our ancestor chiefs at least had some intuitive feel for important variables like agriculture and cavalry our contemporary chiefs (and those… — Dominic Cummings Agriculture Copy Share Image
Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the… — Dominic Cummings Doctor Copy Share Image
If you go back to the Euro campaign in 1999, how many chief executives and chairmen of FTSE 100 companies were speaking… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena. — Dominic Cummings Analysis Copy Share Image
We need organisations like Vote Leave to operate permanently to give a voice to those who otherwise won't be heard. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
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 Education Copy Share Image
Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality. — Dominic Cummings Chess Copy Share Image
Priorities are fundamental to politics because of inevitable information bottlenecks: these bottlenecks can be transformed by rare good organisation but they cannot… — Dominic Cummings Bottlenecks Copy Share Image
Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In the commercial world, big companies mostly die within a few decades because they cannot maintain an internal system to keep them… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Politics does the equivalent of constantly trying to reinvent children's arithmetic and botching it. It does not build reliable foundations of knowledge. — Dominic Cummings Children Copy Share Image
I think the right way to deal with terrorism is to carry on with normal life, like Britain used to when it… — Dominic Cummings Country Copy Share Image
Despite the centrality of communication to politics it is remarkable how little attention Insiders pay to what works - never mind the… — Dominic Cummings Communication Copy Share Image
People are always asking 'how could the politicians let X happen with Y?' where Y is something important. People find it hard… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is - hire physicists, not communications people from normal companies and… — Dominic Cummings Advice Copy Share Image
Every failing organisation has the same stories, people find it very hard to learn from the most successful organisations and people. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
