Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / "The stars are made of the same atoms \ | as the earth." I usually pick one small | | topic like this to give a lecture on. | | Poets say science takes away from the | | beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas | | atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see | | the stars on a desert night, and feel | | them. But do I see less or more? The | | vastness of the heavens stretches my | | imagination -- stuck on this carousel | | my little eye can catch | | one-million-year-old light. A vast | | pattern -- of which I am a part -- | | perhaps my stuff was belched from some | | forgotten star, as one is belching | | there. Or see them with the greater eye | | of Palomar, rushing all apart from some | | common starting point when they were | | perhaps all together. What is the | | pattern, or the meaning, or the *why?* | | It does not do harm to the mystery to | | know a little about it. For far more | | marvelous is the truth than any artists | | of the past imagined! Why do the poets | | of the present not speak of it? What | | men are poets who can speak of Jupiter | | if he were like a man, but if he is an | | immense spinning sphere of methane and | | ammonia must be silent? | | | \ -- Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;