I was probably born with some designing abilities.

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

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

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

I made it to protect the motherland.

Life is composed of different inventions.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

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

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 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.

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

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.

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

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.

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

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

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.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

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

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Never judge a book by its cover

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.

As soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be.

I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry.

I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.