Civil service Quote by Dominic Cummings

The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure…

— Dominic Cummings

The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny.

— Dominic Cummings

In the commercial world, big companies mostly die within a few decades because they cannot maintain an internal system to keep them aligned to…

— Dominic Cummings

Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very…

— 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 predictions and…

— Dominic Cummings

The panic over Sputnik brought many good things such as a huge increase in science funding.

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings

Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics.

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings

Usually in politics everything is done on hunches.

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings

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

— Dominic Cummings