Playboy's 20Q: John Carmack
November, 2004
Playboy's 20Q: John CarmackHe invented Doom 3. He paid cash for a Ferrari. Now the video game genius is headed for space1[Q] Playboy: Back home in Kansas, you and two friends were arrested for stealing an Apple IIe computer. How does a smart 14-year-old get caught doing something so dumb?[A] Carmack: We crawled in through a hole in the window, but one of the guys in our trio was too big. He opened the window to get inside and set off a silent alarm. The cops came while we were carrying computers...