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Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:


$ fortune | cowsay

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/ 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"                            /
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Here is the PHP code:
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;