try to hold the code small, clean, readable and maintenable.
My sentiment is "I do not give a hoot if code works, I only care if it is maintatinable"

I do not know how much "working code with a small glitch" I have seen that was not maintainable and thus ended up in the trash. Making a truly maintainable piece of code work is a breeze.

There is no code which need no maintenance, exept only such code which was never used.
contrary to popular belief this is absolutely true.

Erik