Spreadsheet errors... a great, often unrecognised, risk to corporate decision making & financial integrity.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets are often hard, if not impossible, to understand.

Every study, without exception, has found error rates much higher than organizations would wish to tolerate.

94% of the 88 spreadsheets audited in 7 studies have contained errors.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Research on spreadsheet errors is substantial, compelling, and unanimous.

Despite overwhelming and unanimous evidence... companies have continued to ignore spreadsheet error risks.

The quality and reliability of spreadsheets is known to be poor.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Most executives do not really check or verify the accuracy or validity of [their] spreadsheets...

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

People tend to believe their spreadsheets are more accurate than they really are.

Spreadsheets are the most popular live programming environments, but they are also notoriously fault-prone.

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

The issue is not whether there is an error but how many errors there are and how serious they are.

The software that end users are creating... is riddled with errors.

It is now widely accepted that errors in spreadsheets are both common and potentially dangerous.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Overconfidence is one of the most substantial causes of spreadsheet errors.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Studies have shown that there is a high incidence of errors in spreadsheets.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

...few incidents of spreadsheet errors are made public and these are usually not revealed by choice.

Spreadsheets... pose a greater threat to your business than almost anything you can imagine.

1% of all formulas in operational spreadsheets are in error.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Despite being staggeringly error prone, spreadsheets are a highly flexible programming environment.

Developing an error-free spreadsheet has been a problem since the beginning of end-user computing.

Spreadsheets can be viewed as a highly flexible programming environment for end users.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Even obvious, elementary errors in very simple, clearly documented spreadsheets are... difficult to find.

60% of large companies feel 'Spreadsheet Hell' describes their reliance on spreadsheets.

Spreadsheet development must embrace extensive testing in order to be taken seriously as a profession.

Spreadsheet shortcomings can significantly hamper an organization's business operation.

A lot of decisions are being made on the basis of some bad numbers.

Every study that has looked for errors has found them... in considerable abundance.

The untested spreadsheet is as dangerous and untrustworthy as an untested program.

Errors in spreadsheets... result in incorrect decisions being made and significant losses incurred.