Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / [May one] doubt whether, in cheese and \ | timber, worms are generated, | | | | or, if beetles and wasps, in cow-dung, | | or if butterflies, locusts, | | | | shellfish, snails, eels, and such life | | be procreated of putrefied | | | | matter, which is to receive the form of | | that creature to which it | | | | is by formative power disposed[?] To | | question this is to question | | | | reason, sense, and experience. If he | | doubts this, let him go to | | | | Egypt, and there he will find the | | fields swarming with mice begot | | | | of the mud of the Nylus, to the great | | calamity of the inhabitants. | | | | A seventeenth century opinion quoted by | | L. L. Woodruff, | | | | in *The Evolution of Earth and Man*, | \ 1929 / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;