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

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

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

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

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

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

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.

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.