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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

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

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

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

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

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

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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.

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

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

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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