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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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

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

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

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

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

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

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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