Linus Torvalds Quotes

I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.

I'm a day-to-day-type person.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

I am not a five-year-plan type. I tend to put one foot in front of the other and to allow things to unfold.

The future will take care of itself. My plans have fallen flat. Nothing that I planned has worked for me so far. So I don't plan anymore. I keep short-term plans.

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I always live in the present. Every night, my mother asks me what I want for breakfast the next morning, and I say that I can only tell her that when I wake up the next day.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I take it season by season. I don't like looking too far ahead, because you never know what can happen.

Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.

It's good to be prepared, but spontaneity is very important - just to let yourself go and let it be whatever it is.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.