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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

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

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

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

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.