Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / Price Wang's programmer was coding \ | software. His fingers danced upon the | | keyboard. The program compiled without | | an error message, and the program ran | | like a gentle wind. | | | | Excellent!" the Price exclaimed, "Your | | technique is faultless!" | | | | "Technique?" said the programmer, | | turning from his terminal, "What I | | follow is the Tao -- beyond all | | technique. When I first began to | | program I would see before me the whole | | program in one mass. After three years | | I no longer saw this mass. Instead, I | | used subroutines. But now I see | | nothing. My whole being exists in a | | formless void. My senses are idle. My | | spirit, free to work without a plan, | | follows its own instinct. In short, my | | program writes itself. True, sometimes | | there are difficult problems. I see | | them coming, I slow down, I watch | | silently. Then I change a single line | | of code and the difficulties vanish | | like puffs of idle smoke. I then | | compile the program. I sit still and | | let the joy of the work fill my being. | | I close my eyes for a moment and then | | log off." | | | | Price Wang said, "Would that all of my | | programmers were as wise!" | | | | -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of | \ Programming" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;