Quantity Beats Quality

see (2004-01-23) Quantity And Quality

cf Quantity has a quality all its own

• often attributed to Joseph Stalin, but nobody has a source
• maybe Thomas A. Callaghan Jr., influential US defense consultant of the 1970s and 1980s and director of the Allied Interdependence program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, arguing for increased spending on weapons. Earliest result I could find is “Quantity has a Quality All Its Own,” Allied Interdependence Newsletter No. 13, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 21 June 1979 (which Callaghan produced and presumably authored)