Disagree and agree so strongly

I watched a strange documentary type program recently:

zeitgeist

It goes into a lot of different ideas, about a whole heap of different (sometimes completely unrelated) ideas.

One thing that I liked in it was that there is some factual truth to the christian bible. That basis being that all of the stories and characters in it are direct representations of  astrological signs and their astronomical connections.

That was about it though.

duct tape programming

Everyone thinks it at one point, "It's ugly, but it will work" and the next though is "I'd like to make it better, but I don't have time right now".
Now it has a name: duct tape programming

It's always a trade off, between two extremes:
wasting time on something that already works
vs
writing something that will fall apart with the next modification (or in a different environment)

It's important to be aware of the decision you are making.