Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / Norbert Weiner was the subject of many \ | dotty professor stories. Weiner was, in | | fact, very absent minded. The following | | story is told about him: when they | | moved from Cambridge to Newton his | | wife, knowing that he would be | | absolutely useless on the move, packed | | him off to MIT while she directed the | | move. Since she was certain that he | | would forget that they had moved and | | where they had moved to, she wrote down | | the new address on a piece of paper, | | and gave it to him. Naturally, in the | | course of the day, an insight occurred | | to him. He reached in his pocket, found | | a piece of paper on which he furiously | | scribbled some notes, thought it over, | | decided there was a fallacy in his | | idea, and threw the piece of paper | | away. At the end of the day he went | | home (to the old address in Cambridge, | | of course). When he got there he | | realized that they had moved, that he | | had no idea where they had moved to, | | and that the piece of paper with the | | address was long gone. Fortunately | | inspiration struck. There was a young | | girl on the street and he conceived the | | idea of asking her where he had moved | | to, saying, "Excuse me, perhaps you | | know me. I'm Norbert Weiner and we've | | just moved. Would you know where we've | | moved to?" To which the young girl | | replied, "Yes, Daddy, Mommy thought you | | would forget." | | | | The capper to the story is that I asked | | his daughter (the girl in the story) | | about the truth of the story, many | | years later. She said that it wasn't | | quite true -- that he never forgot who | | his children were! The rest of it, | | however, was pretty close to what | | actually happened... | | | \ -- Richard Harter / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;