Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / We laugh at the Indian philosopher, who \ | to account for the support of the | | earth, contrived the hypothesis of a | | huge elephant, and to support the | | elephant, a huge tortoise. If we will | | candidly confess the truth, we know as | | little of the operation of the nerves, | | as he did of the manner in which the | | earth is supported: and our hypothesis | | about animal spirits, or about the | | tension and vibrations of the nerves, | | are as like to be true, as his about | | the support of the earth. His elephant | | was a hypothesis, and our hypotheses | | are elephants. Every theory in | | philosophy, which is built on pure | | conjecture, is an elephant; and every | | theory that is supported partly by | | fact, and partly by conjecture, is like | | Nebuchadnezzar's image, whose feet were | | partly of iron, and partly of clay. | | | | -- Thomas Reid, "An Inquiry into the | \ Human Mind", 1764 / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;