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

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

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

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

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

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

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

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

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.