Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / Once there lived a village of \ | creatures along the bottom of a great | | crystal river. Each creature in its own | | manner clung tightly to the twigs and | | rocks of the river bottom, for clinging | | was their way of life, and resisting | | the current what each had learned from | | birth. But one creature said at last, | | "I trust that the current knows where | | it is going. I shall let go, and let it | | take me where it will. Clinging, I | | shall die of boredom." | | | | The other creatures laughed and said, | | "Fool! Let go, and that current you | | worship will throw you tumbled and | | smashed across the rocks, and you will | | die quicker than boredom!" | | | | But the one heeded them not, and taking | | a breath did let go, and at once was | | tumbled and smashed by the current | | across the rocks. Yet, in time, as the | | creature refused to cling again, the | | current lifted him free from the | | bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no | | more. | | | | And the creatures downstream, to whom | | he was a stranger, cried, "See a | | miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet | | he flies! See the Messiah, come to save | | us all!" And the one carried in the | | current said, "I am no more Messiah | | than you. The river delight to lift us | | free, if only we dare let go. Our true | | work is this voyage, this adventure. | | | | But they cried the more, "Saviour!" all | | the while clinging to the rocks, making | | legends of a Saviour. | | | \ -- Richard Bach / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;