I can see your point. Certainly I am in the same position; I often need to get things done at work. I guess I just took the words in a more positive way, as an exhortation to hold yourself to a higher standard. I hear plenty at work and elsewhere about getting things done, and very little about becoming a better programmer, or being proud of your code. And if you consider it, a lot of people don't care. I have a problem with those people too.

So I hope you're more sympathetic to my reasons for posting the quotes than to the quotes themselves. Since you are a person trying to do his best, it's a matter of cheering you on, like the spectators in the quote.