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

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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 are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.