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I didn't like f(x)—that looked to me like f times x. I also didn't like dy/dx—you have a tendency to cancel the d's—so I made a different sign, something like an & sign. For logarithms it was a big L extended to the right, with the thing you take the log of inside, and so on.
-From "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character" by Richard P. Feynman

 “Just hard code it into stored procedures!”
-Vince Chan

“Ruby is spiftecular[sic], I tell you”
-Neal Hardesty

“Why don’t we do it like,
if <retailername>
{
      Fee = 3.35
}
-Tim Oliver