Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay
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/ There was once a programmer who was \
| attached to the court of the warlord of |
| Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: |
| "Which is easier to design: an |
| accounting package or an operating |
| system?" |
| |
| "An operating system," replied the |
| programmer. |
| |
| The warlord uttered an exclamation of |
| disbelief. "Surely an accounting |
| package is trivial next to the |
| complexity of an operating system," he |
| said. |
| |
| "Not so," said the programmer, "when |
| designing an accounting package, the |
| programmer operates as a mediator |
| between people having different ideas: |
| how it must operate, how its reports |
| must appear, and how it must conform to |
| the tax laws. By contrast, an operating |
| system is not limited my outside |
| appearances. When designing an |
| operating system, the programmer seeks |
| the simplest harmony between machine |
| and ideas. This is why an operating |
| system is easier to design." |
| |
| The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. |
| "That is all good and well, but which |
| is easier to debug?" |
| |
| The programmer made no reply. |
| |
| -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of |
\ Programming" /
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$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;