A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

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

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

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