I probably first heard this idiom around 1980. Over the course of my professional life, from my first publication in 1971 to my last in 2016, the pressure to publish has increased dramatically. Great mathematicians at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century could build a distinguished career with a dozen publications; today that is unthinkable. Even worse, the value of a scientist is now often measured by citation indices. Numbers rule, and the drive to quantify everything—including evaluation—has a profound impact on what science is and how it continues to develop. Here are my numbers. According to Google's i10-index among my several hundred research papers there are 171 papers with more than 10 citations.