Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

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

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

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

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

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