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This conversation sparked itself spontaneously today:
Jonathan: If you see a piece of ugly code, what do you do?
Me: Does it work?
Jonathan: Yes.
Me: Then let it work.
Jonathan: Then why do we refactor?
Me: Does it work?
Kevin: The meaning of work here is more than correctly executing an algorithm. If a piece of new functionality cannot be easily added, then the code does not "work" in a broader sense.