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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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.

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

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

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

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.

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