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Re:What is your best programmer joke? by gnosis on Saturday March 02, 2013 @02:35PM (#5310696)
The following anecdote about Steve Jobs is from [1]:

  I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant,
  announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair,
  bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand.

  "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.
[1] - http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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Re:What is your best programmer joke? by tompko on Saturday March 02, 2013 @05:03PM (#5311284)
There's a talk by Randall Munroe (xkcd) at google where this is debunked by Knuth himself. It also features him being asked questions about Python by Guido.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24

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