Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / I have sacrificed time, health, and \ | fortune, in the desire to complete | | these Calculating Engines. I have also | | declined several offers of great | | personal advantage to myself. But, | | notwithstanding the sacrifice of these | | advantages for the purpose of maturing | | an engine of almost intellectual power, | | and after expending from my own private | | fortune a larger sum than the | | government of England has spent on that | | machine, the execution of which it only | | commenced, I have received neither an | | acknowledgement of my labors, not even | | the offer of those honors or rewards | | which are allowed to fall within the | | reach of men who devote themselves to | | purely scientific investigations... | | | | If the work upon which I have bestowed | | so much time and thought were a mere | | triumph over mechanical difficulties, | | or simply curious, or if the execution | | of such engines were of doubtful | | practicability or utility, some | | justification might be found for the | | course which has been taken; but I | | venture to assert that no mathematician | | who has a reputation to lose will ever | | publicly express an opinion that such a | | machine would be useless if made, and | | that no man distinguished as a civil | | engineer will venture to declare the | | construction of such machinery | | impracticable... | | | | And at a period when the progress of | | physical science is obstructed by that | | exhausting intellectual and manual | | labor, indispensable for its | | advancement, which it is the object of | | the Analytical Engine to relieve, I | | think the application of machinery in | | aid of the most complicated and abtruse | | calculations can no longer be deemed | | unworthy of the attention of the | | country. In fact, there is no reason | | why mental as well as bodily labor | | should not be economized by the aid of | | machinery. | | | | -- Charles Babbage, "The Life of a | \ Philosopher" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;