Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

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 AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

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.

Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.

You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.