are you a mort, elvis or einstein (or are these labels nonsense)?

I was recently discussing the old Microsoft personas of MortElvis and Einstein to some folks at work and was shocked that most had never heard of them.  You can easily google these three magical names and find several articles such as this onehere and yet another one (well… if you can read German).  Here they are in a nutshell.

  • Mort, the opportunist developer, likes to create quick-working solutions for immediate problems.  He focuses on productivity and learns as needed.
  • Elvis, the pragmatic programmer, likes to create long-lasting solutions addressing the problem domain, and learning while working on the solution.
  • Einstein, the paranoid programmer, likes to create the most efficient solution to a given problem, and typically learns in advance before working on the solution.

Well, which best describes you?  Can you use these labels to describe folks that you work with?  Or… are these just junk?