Brown shared this quote from his late colleague Mark Weiser, the founder of the ubiquitous computing movement at Xerox PARC, who died of cancer at a young age. The idea was central to PARC's philosophy: that the best technology isn't flashy or attention-grabbing, but rather becomes so naturally integrated into daily life that people stop noticing it. Brown used this to help graduates understand the trajectory of technological progress — from the personal computer and graphical user interface that PARC invented, to today's cloud computing and AI that increasingly operate invisibly in the background. The implication was that the most impactful work these graduates could do would be creating technology that serves people so seamlessly it becomes part of the fabric of living.