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)

“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)

“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
—Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)