Top 21 Quotes by Mikhail Kalashnikov

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

I made it to protect the motherland.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.