Phil Noble

Phil Noble Jr. (born May 17, 1951, Greenville, South Carolina) is an American entrepreneur and speaker in technology and the civic sector.

Phil Noble
Personal details
Born (1951-05-17) May 17, 1951
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationPresbyterian College
Jacksonville State University
Birmingham-Southern College (BSc)
Stockholm University

Biography

Growing up in Anniston, Alabama, Noble’s father, J. Phillips Noble, a Presbyterian minister, was involved in the civil rights movement during Gov. George Wallace’s tenure as Alabama governor. FBI files indicate Noble’s father was a top target of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.[1]

After graduating from Tennessee Military Institute in 1969, Noble attended several colleges and universities, graduating from Birmingham-Southern College in 1974.[2]

Working in politics and technology

For his work, in 2001, Noble was chosen as a Resident Fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[2]

gollark: https://www.theregister.com/2019/03/05/ai_gaydar/ (headline is vaguely misleading)
gollark: I blatantly stole it from helloboi.
gollark: I may be referred to as car/cdr if desired.
gollark: The problem with spaces is that you can’t actually see them. So you can’t be sure they’re correct. Also they aren’t actually there anyway - they are the absence of code. “Anti-code” if you will. Too many developers format their code “to make it more maintainable” (like that’s actually a thing), but they’re really just filling the document with spaces. And it’s impossible to know how spaces will effect your code, because if you can’t see them, then you can’t read them. Real code wizards know to just write one long line and pack it in tight. What’s that you say? You wrote 600 lines of code today? Well I wrote one, and it took all week, but it’s the best. And when I hand this project over to you next month I’ll have solved world peace in just 14 lines and you will be so lucky to have my code on your screen <ninja chop>.
gollark: Remove the call stack and do trampolining or something?

References
  1. Noble, P: Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town, page 107. NewSouth Books, 2003.
  2. Harvard former fellows Retrieved 7 September 2010
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