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

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

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

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

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

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

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

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

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

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

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.

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

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

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

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