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Michael Abrash is a god, largely responsible for the graphical prowess of iD's early games, and also for a large portion of modern DirectX concepts. John Carmack is his buddy, who isn't half bad as a programmer himself.

Get it right, guys.  Carmack is tall because... shoulders of giants.  Okay okay, he knows some stuff too.