Knuth would not be verbose. He has a penchant for elegance, terseness and expressiveness.

There was an anecdote posted by someone here a while that showed Knuth isn't very comfortable editing Wikipedia -- after a lecture Knuth gave, someone was talking to him and Knuth asked that person to fix some mistakes on his Wikipedia page.

And I realize that per WP policy that is probably a proper thing to do as self-edits are frowned on, but that wasn't what Knuth was going for.