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When I think of an inventor, I think of somebody like this guy.

My name is Leonardo Cadilliole.

An Italian inventor named Leonardo. Like, come on. He's very passionate, very smart, and very

precise. You speak five languages, is that true?

So this means that you have consulted Wikipedia.

And that is something that I really hate.

Leonardo does actually speak five languages, including Japanese.

He just doesn't want some random person on Wikipedia speaking

for him. When I will be dead, I mean, people can talk as authoritatively or not about myself,

but as long as I'm alive, I am the only one that's described to myself. Yeah, he wants to be the one

to write his own story, which for our purposes is not just a story about Leonardo and his invention.

It's a story about how we even think about the nature of invention.

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