Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / There was once a programmer who was \ | attached to the court of the warlord of | | Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: | | "Which is easier to design: an | | accounting package or an operating | | system?" | | | | "An operating system," replied the | | programmer. | | | | The warlord uttered an exclamation of | | disbelief. "Surely an accounting | | package is trivial next to the | | complexity of an operating system," he | | said. | | | | "Not so," said the programmer, "when | | designing an accounting package, the | | programmer operates as a mediator | | between people having different ideas: | | how it must operate, how its reports | | must appear, and how it must conform to | | the tax laws. By contrast, an operating | | system is not limited my outside | | appearances. When designing an | | operating system, the programmer seeks | | the simplest harmony between machine | | and ideas. This is why an operating | | system is easier to design." | | | | The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. | | "That is all good and well, but which | | is easier to debug?" | | | | The programmer made no reply. | | | | -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of | \ Programming" / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;