Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

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

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

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

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.