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

Spreadsheets contain errors at an alarmingly high rate.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Spreadsheets are alarmingly error-prone to write.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are dangerous to their authors and others.

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

Spreadsheet errors have resulted in huge financial losses.

Your spreadsheets may be disasters in the making.

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

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed.

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

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

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

Spreadsheets are easy to use and very hard to check.

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

Never assume a spreadsheet is right, even your own.

Spreadsheets have a notoriously high number of faults.

Spreadsheets are notoriously error-prone.

Spreadsheet errors are pervasive, stubborn, ubiquitous and complex.

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

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

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

Errors in spreadsheets are as ubiquitous as spreadsheets themselves.

Spreadsheets are extraordinarily and unacceptably prone to error.

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

The results given by spreadsheets are often just wrong.

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

A significant proportion of spreadsheets have severe quality problems.

It is irrational to expect large error-free spreadsheets.

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

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

Spreadsheet errors are still the rule rather than the exception.

Spreadsheets are more fault-prone than other software.

Most large spreadsheets have dozens or even hundreds of errors.

Untested spreadsheets are riddled with errors.

Programmers exhibit unwarranted confidence in the correctness of their spreadsheets.