“I’m going to turn on every damn light in protest of Earth Hour. Lighting the darkness is fundamental to humanity's climb.”

— John D. Carmack

Posted on Twitter https://web.archive.org/save/https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/185757996473790464 (2012-03-30)

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American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman 1970

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