Interesting ... I think I've got a mix of these "personalities". I was more of a Philosopher when I was doing embedded programming since there's a huge and real cost involved if you ship 100,000 units with the wrong code (this was before you could reflash every little toy you bought).

Now I'm more of a conqueror ... there's often no cost to having a bug on a web application, so get the code out the door and deal with the bugs that are found later. You can still keep the code reasonably clean!