Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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