The idea wasn’t mine. Darrin Thompson posted this to the mailing list:
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which I thought was hot. So I made two images that were based on it:
For what it’s worth, the >>= operator and lambda calculus/functions are really important in Haskell. The other ideas for a new logo are all on the Haskell wiki.
I’m completely open to suggestions.