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.

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

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

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

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

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

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

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

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

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

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