False Alarm Rate

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

    “Over the stark plain
    The stilted mill-chimneys once again spread
    Their sackcloth and ashes a flowing mane
    Of repentance for the false day that’s fled.”
    —William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969)

    “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)

    “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)