The argument I've heard about how special Moore's law is that if you take a baby crawling at 10cm/s and 1000x it, you get almost Mach 3, which is almost as fast

The argument I've heard about how special Moore's law is that if you take a baby crawling at 10cm/s and 1000x it, you get almost Mach 3, which is almost as fast as the SR71 Blackbird flies. yet with a 18 month cadence, that's 15 years of progress, which has happened multiple times during the existence of the VLSI industry.