Mark Weiser

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The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

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Source: "The Computer for the 21st Century", Mark Weiser, Scientific American, September 1991

These are the opening two sentences of Weiser's ubiquitous-computing paper, quoted verbatim and correctly. One of the best-documented attributions in computing; the text matches the published article word for word.

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