A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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

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

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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