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"Why do it right when you can do it twice?"

I use it sarcastically when people want to hack things together so I don't think it counts as a motto.

> "Why do it right when you can do it twice?"

Elsewhere in this discussion I observed that it is a good tradeoff if "doing it right" takes three times as long, or if after doing it right you're still going to have to do it over because you anticipated the wrong problems.

I sometimes use: Why do today what can be put off until tomorrow?

I remember I really liked this one as a kid, and of course its corollary "don't put off until tomorrow what can be put off until the day after". And I still use this as part of my prioritisation - if something is not at all time sensitive, either act on it now, or let it go. Snoozing this stuff doesn't really help; if it's valuable it'll come back to your mind on its own.

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

- Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants

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