In science, once researchers think they have understood how something works, they enunciate a law that should allow fellow researchers to predict future behaviour.

"Moore's Law", however, is different. Enunciated for the first time in 1965 and later modified many a time, it actually never said anything about the 18 months that are supposedly needed for manufacturers to double the speed of processors. [1]

Rather than a law, Moore's Law is a brilliant marketing statement: we at Intel will produce ever faster semi-conductors. Someone please stand up and find a way to use them, or we won't know who to sell them to. [2]

Many people in Silicon Valley disagree. Ray Kurzweil, founder of the Singularity Movement, thinks that Moore's Law is nothing less than a law of nature. [3]

Kevin Kelly thinks Moore's Law is a divine law by which technology is speaking to us.

And what technology has to say is always: Let me take care of everything. I'll fix the future.