“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
About this quote
The sentence is a way of making a large uncertainty manageable, by breaking it into a unit small enough to act on. It is also a quiet objection to the way plans are usually made, since most of the risk in a long project is the risk of assuming you can see all of it at once.