I was born in Minsk, the Republic of Belarus, on the 8th February of 1985. ~ I used to attend a gymnasium which laid an emphasis on maths and natural science. ~ There I started to indulge my passion for programming and computer science. But at the same time it was there where I began to see my existence from different point of view.
While being 14 years old, I wrote my first article, which was published in a weekly Belarussian computer-oriented newspaper in July 1999. In the age of 16 I moved to Germany, having not a clue about German language. I confronted new mentality, new society, new life. I faced new difficulties and challenges. But I also faced new hope and explored a hitherto unimaginable development of my personality. I realized that I have become a person with its own, personal history, a person who has a past which is completely different from its present – and apparently – future life.
Vitaly Friedman is the creator of the Web Developers Handbook.
It doesn’t happen too often, but it happens. Once, being inspired by your own imagination, you take a pencil in your hand. You see blurred images running over and over again in your head. You release your spirit of inspiration.
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It feels just good to be different. It feels good to know that your ideas are different. It just feels good.
I think he knows what he’s talking about.
Sometimes when you feel, you see the world with different eyes, from different perspectives, with different thoughts at the back of your mind. Suddenly you perceive new facets of the ordinary and unspectacular things of your routine life. Suddenly the snow turns out to be the source of creativity and the fount of wisdom. It doesn’t take long until a powerful mountain range by a sunny day appears to become the object of curiosity and desire. You feel.
Thank you, Mr. Friedman, for helping us see the world with different eyes.