John Carmack is a talented individual. He could program things no one thought was possible at the time. Even though he was very intelligent in his craft he did not care about others, if something or someone was in the way of his work he found a way to remove it. Carmack showed little emotion and “his sentences often end with an involuntary noise that sounds something like Mn!” Carmack owned a software company, an aerospace company and is currently on a virtual reality device. John Carmacks father worked as a news anchor for a well-known station in Kansas City, Missouri. Carmack was a genius, even at the age seven he was making “near perfect on every standardized test, placing himself at ninth-grade comprehension level.” It wasn’t until he saw the Apple II at his school and the games on screen that he realized that he could alter the games however he wanted. While in the fifth grade he took a computer course so he could teach himself what he needed to use this devise.…show more content… Carmack and friends discovered that a nearby school had a few Apple II machines. With his knowledge of chemicals Carmack created a thermite paste to melt the glass and crawl through to get inside the school. They were arrested after their overweight friend accidently triggered the silent alarm. After he graduating high school, and attending only 2 semesters at University of Kansas John Carmack dropped out and started work as a freelance programmer. He discovered the computer magazine publisher Softdisk, which bought a tennis game he created, and the company was interested in more games from the wiz kid. After many letters, and messages about interviews, and job offers Carmack decided to travel down to Shreveport, Louisiana where their offices
