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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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

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 extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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

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

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

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.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

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

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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