Quote Originally Posted by Van View Post
Kalashnikov is always credited with having created the AK for the Great Soviet Cause and Mother Russia, but my experiences with engineers would make him the exception. Every compentent engineer I have ever meet has first and foremost been "technology driven", creating gadgets for the sake of their facination with the given class of gadget, rather than idealistic motives (although several tried to rationalize, later statements and actions contradicted their claims). His experiences in the war may have started him down that path, but what Scott Adams ("Dilbert" creator) refers to as 'The Knack' took over.
You said it so better than I.

I reach to the same conclusion. Authentic exceptions exist, but they remain exceptions.