Life Can Make You Do Many Things,

I Tried A Dozen Different Modifications That Were Rejected. But They All Served As A Path To The Final Design.

When A Young Man, I Read Somewhere The Following: God The Almighty Said, 'all That Is Too Complex Is Unnecessary, And It Is Simple That Is Needed.' So This Has Been My Lifetime Motto – I Have Been Creating Weapons To Defend The Borders Of My Fatherland, To Be Simple And Reliable.

It Is The Germans Who Are Responsible For The Fact That I Became A Fabricator Of Arms. If Not For Them, I Would Have Constructed Agricultural Machines. (...) If Someone Asks Me How I Can Sleep At Night Knowing That My Arms Have Killed Millions Of People, I Respond That I Have No Problem Sleeping, My Conscience Is Clean. I Constructed Arms To Defend My Country.

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

The Fact That People Die Because Of An Ak-47 Is Not Because Of The Designer, But Because Of Politics.