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– Chris Chant

What a load of nonsense!

– Anonymous

Why is cloud any less secure than a server sitting under a desk?

– Roland Moore-Colyer

"Thoroughly researched"

"Highly influential"

These are just some of the comments not made about his article Council IT teams overstating cloud security concerns

@DMossEsq : well, for the astrology jibe for questioning your blind faith in randomness, I'll predict you're a prick right now ;-)

– Simon Wardley, startup strategist

@DMossEsq I work in an agile team on a government project. Either help us improve things, or shut up. /cc @MTBracken

– Chris Atherton, user interface specialist at the Home Office

(also @DMossEsq Sorry, I'm too busy trying to make government digital services work to roll in the mud.)

(turns out to have been a contractor for 21 months to December 2014 working on GDS's visa application exemplar service that couldn't handle bulk applications)

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– Michael Allen, developer at Kainos, the experts behind GDS's DEFRA success, see also here & here & here & here

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– Reema Mehta, formerly @GOVUK @gdsteam

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£10-worth of intelligent artifice, now ranked ~~4,915,029~~ 7,300,721 on Amazon!

They said it first:

The relentless growth in size and functions of the Department of State and the relatively high level in calibre of those who staff them, coupled with the steady decline in importance of and function of MPs, has led to a gradual transfer of power and influence from the floor of the House of Commons to the private rooms of permanent civil servants.

GW Keeton, 1952, The Passing of Parliament

Hat tip: SDG

I breakfasted at Mr. Falconer's well, and much pleased with my inquiries. Thence to the dock, where we walked in Mr. Shelden's garden, eating more fruit, and drinking, and eating figs, which were very good, and talking while the Royal James was bringing towards the dock, and then we went out and saw the manner and trouble of docking such a ship, which yet they could not do, but only brought her head into the Dock, and so shored her up till next tide. But, good God! what a deal of company was there from both yards to help to do it, when half the company would have done it as well. But I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Samuel Pepys, 21 July 1662

Hat tip: Lewis Page, ElReg

Housewives as a whole cannot be trusted to buy all the right things, where nutrition and health are concerned. This is really no more than an extension of the principle according to which the housewife herself would not trust a child of four to select the week’s purchases. For in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves.

Douglas Jay, 1937, The Socialist Case

Hat tip: GW Keeton

... civil servants have years of experience, jobs for life, and a budget of hundreds of billions of pounds, while ministers have, usually, little or no experience of the job and could be kicked out tomorrow. After researching and writing 44 episodes and a play, I find government much easier to understand by looking at ministers as public relations consultants to the real government – which is, of course, the Civil Service.

Antony Jay, 2 January 2013

His [Steve Hilton's] hour-long class on “How to make change happen in government” offers a startling insight into the frustration of Cameron’s inner circle at its own impotence in the face of the formidable Whitehall machine.

Steve Hilton, 13 January 2013

Those who optimistically believe they are breaking new ground by improving the online experience are often merely tracing footprints on a path already much trodden, reinventing and rediscovering anew the same things – from a common website to cross-government platforms. The result has been several generations of faster horses.

Jerry Fishenden, 14 March 2016

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Institute for Government
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India boldly takes biometrics where no country has gone before
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