False Alarm Rate

Famous quotes containing the words false, alarm and/or rate:

    Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
    Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)

    “Terence, this is stupid stuff:
    You eat your victuals fast enough;
    There can’t be much amiss, ‘tis clear,
    To see the rate you drink your beer.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)