[jimbokun]

I had a boss once who had a Math PhD and could throw together spaghetti code to implement his ideas.

He would give me a task to do and would basically say "don't waste time making the code clean and nice" because he knew I had a software engineering background and didn't want me over engineering anything.

I would nod, implement it "the right way" anyway, and get it done in the same amount of time.

Because doing it the spaghetti code way always takes longer in the medium to long run, and often even the short run, anyway.