Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

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

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

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

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

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

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

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

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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.

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

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