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.

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

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.

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.

Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.

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.