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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.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

I'm an inventor.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Failure is your invention.

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.