Right, not quantity in that sense, but as a fraction of the working product expected of you.
I have known a couple of people who fussed and fussed with little chunks of code until they were little gems, but always missed the big picture and missed deadlines. I have also known a few whose instinct was to write a framework first, and that takes a life of its own; the most egregious one was a CLOS (common lisp) style system using C macros. Debugging was a nightmare.
