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Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."
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'Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."' -- as a software engineer, I assure you this isn't completely true. If things are too smooth, something is definitely, probably horribly and sneakily, wrong.
"Any problem that goes away by itself can come back by itself." - fellow programmer I knew
False positives make me lose sleep because I get oaged. False negatives make me lose sleep because of the dread.
(When I carried a pager) I'd rather occasionally get paged at 3AM for nothing than not get a page when it actually was Something. But those were production systems for things that would make the news if they went down.