"A village is the last damned place to RON: to remain overnight in. There would be Vietnamese all around us. Old mamas…"

"Kalashnikov had already distinguished himself by inventing a device that counted the shells a tank had fired and now,…"

"Interestingly, however, it doesn't actually do anything especially interesting. You get a 30-round magazine that fire…"

"Once, while I was working in Switzerland, a Hell's Angel offered me a brand-new AK47, still in its greaseproof wrappi…"

"The AK is different. There are children in the world today named Kalash, in its honour. You will find images of it in…"

"Then you have Che Guevara, possibly the coolest man ever to have walked the planet. Yes, his real name was Earnest, b…"

"Design is rarely art because design, when all is said and done, exists purely to make money. And yet the AK was never…"

"I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. … I would prefer to have invented a machine tha…"

"Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens, I ask…"

"Is there a design this good that doesn't kill people?"