“I had no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction, but amazingly enough instead of 10 [years] doubling, we got nine over the 10 years, but still followed pretty well along the curve.”

— Gordon Moore

[Computer History Museum Presents: The 40th Anniversary of Moore's Law with Gordon Moore and Carver Mead, Computer History Museum, 2005-09-15, http://www.computerhistory.org/about/press_relations/releases/20050915_moore/, 2006-11-06] (quoting an unidentified Intel press release)

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