Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

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 made it to protect the motherland.

I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

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

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.