Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / An Animal that knows who it is, one \ | that has a sense of his own identity, | | is a discontented creature, doomed to | | create new problems for himself for the | | duration of his stay on this planet. | | Since neither the mouse nor the chimp | | knows what is, he is spared all the | | vexing problems that follow this | | discovery. But as soon as the human | | animal who asked himself this question | | emerged, he plunged himself and his | | descendants into an eternity of doubt | | and brooding, speculation and | | truth-seeking that has goaded him | | through the centuries as relentlessly | | as hunger or sexual longing. The chimp | | that does not know that he exists is | | not driven to discover his origins and | | is spared the tragic necessity of | | contemplating his own end. And even if | | the animal experimenters succeed in | | teaching a chimp to count one hundred | | bananas or to play chess, the chimp | | will develop no science and he will | | exhibit no appreciation of beauty, for | | the greatest part of man's wisdom may | | be traced back to the eternal questions | | of beginnings and endings, the quest to | | give meaning to his existence, to life | | itself. | | | | -- Selma Fraiberg, _The Magic Years_, | \ pg. 193 / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;