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From what i understand he has a knowledge of CS, but didnt delve into code at apple. From Mortiz' book, I can tell he did write code for Atari.

• baddox 17y ago
  He reportedly claimed to have read Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming, which would certainly require some serious CS and mathematics chops to comprehend.
  • philwelch 17y ago
    "It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books." "You're full of shit," Knuth responded. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_of_the_Steve_Kind.txt http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_of_t...
    • culled 17y ago
      There's a Google talk that Randall Munroe did. Knuth was there and Munroe asked him about that story, Knuth seemed to deny it.
      • gjm11 17y ago
        "Full of shit" seems a very un-Knuth-y expression. [edited to add: I should of course just have called it "unknuth", but my pun-sense wasn't quick enough on the mark.]