Life Is Composed Of Different Inventions.

Things That Are Complex Are Not Useful, Things That Are Useful Are Simple.

Then It Was Like A Genie Out Of The Bottle And It Began To Walk All On Its Own And In Directions I Did Not Want.

My Aim Was To Create Armaments To Protect The Borders Of My Motherland. It Is Not My Fault That The Kalashnikov Became Very Well-known In The World; That It Was Used In Many Troubled Places. I Think The Policies Of These Countries Are To Blame, Not The Designers. Man Is Born To Protect His Family, His Children, His Wife. But I Want You To Know That Apart From Armaments, I Have Written Three Books In Which I Try To Educate Our Youth To Show Respect For Their Families, For Old People, For History.

I Had To Gain Experience As I Did Not Have A Technical Education.

The Ak-47 Is Not A Device Of Aggression ... I Devised This Machine-gun For The Security Of My Country.