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.

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

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

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

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

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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