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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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.

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

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

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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 are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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