Nowadays the competition, bureaucratization and, above all, numbers are taking precedence in the people’s life: indicators, scores and rankings. This is particularly true in the academic life, which clearly mirrors the whole world increasingly branded by these values. This book explores the life in the kingdom of quantity and inflexibility: the paranoia, intrigue, fallacies, and obsessions by those who rule and serve in a world of indicators. It also explores the possibilities for transforming this state-of-the-art by assuming without ideological biases the potentials for action of those who belong to the academe and do research from the colleges.