Company Name
The company writes its name with a lowercase id, which is pronounced as in "did" or "kid", and in the book, Masters of Doom, it is said that the group was identified itself as "ideas from the deep" in the early days of Softdisk, but in the end the name 'id' came from the phrase, "in demand." It is presented by the company as a reference to the Id, a psychological concept introduced by Sigmund Freud. Evidence of the reference can be found as early as Wolfenstein 3D with the statement "that's id, as in the id, ego, and superego in the psyche" appearing in the game's documentation. Even today, Id's History page makes a direct reference to Freud.
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Famous quotes containing the word company:
“Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men’s company, can only be acquired in women’s.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)