False Alarm Rate

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

    “It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)

    “Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ““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)