Your definition of fame is different from hers. I'm sure that to his team and all those who know him, he is "famous". When people think of him, they think of hi

Your definition of fame is different from hers. I'm sure that to his team and all those who know him, he is "famous". When people think of him, they think of him with respect and generally think better of him than they do of their other friends/acquaintances. She's not talking about world-famous - Zuck may be world-famous, but Knuth is not; he's only famous amongst the programmer/computer science community.