Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

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.