A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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.

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

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

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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...

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

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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