> The story is definitely false because Knuth is a very polite and modest person who has never been the sort of person that says "you're full of shit" to anyone

> The story is definitely false because Knuth is a very polite and modest person who has never been the sort of person that says "you're full of shit" to anyone. Absolutely. It's just a special case of the (likely) fact that Knuth never told anyone that they were full of shit.