You've heard of Moore's famous law no doubt: a prediction made in 1965 that the transistor count per semiconductor chip area would double every year and adjusted a decade later in 1975 projecting a doubling every two years. While the transistor count curve has been a bit jerky lately it is still considered to follow the law meaning Moore's law is in effect for more than 60 years.
How could Mr. Moore have ever made such a deep prediction about an engineering discipline that was still in its infancy? He was a champion of his field and possessed the knowledge, experience and motivation to correlate a seemingly infinite number of variables and by that to uncover the Gestalt of the semiconductor industry, the very essence of the thing.
There are deep observations regarding software as well. Often formulated as aphorisms and jokes, people tend to initially overlook, misinterpret and dismiss them as cringy nerdisms but they bestow special powers to th