---
title: "Steve Jobs perfect response to an insult"
source_url: https://youtube.com/shorts/J_H6lMqJqXk
captured_at: 2025-10-18
author: "Ayooluwa Oladele"
contributor: "ป้าเกษตร"
platform: youtube
---
# Steve Jobs perfect response to an insult

youtube video by **Ayooluwa Oladele**, 1m52s, uploaded 2025-10-12. URL: https://youtube.com/shorts/J_H6lMqJqXk

## Shared in LINE Note+
- 2025-10-18 16:54 by ป้าเกษตร — note: บ้านบ้าน — nearby chat: บ้านบ้าน Photos | บ้านบ้าน

## Description
The best way to respond to a critic or an insult isn’t with emotion — it’s with logic. 🎯
When you let emotions lead, you lose control of the narrative. But when you respond with clarity, facts, and calm confidence, you not only silence the noise — you earn respect. 💡
Remember, professionals don’t argue to prove a point; they respond to protect their brand.

## Transcript (captions:auto:en-orig)
clear that on several counts you've discussed you don't know what you're talking about. [clears throat] I would like for example for you to express in clear terms how say Java addresses the ideas embodied in OpenDuck and when you're finished with that perhaps you could tell us what you personally have been doing for the last seven years. Uh, >> you know, [music] you can please some of the people some of the [music] time, but one of the hardest things when [music] you're trying to affect change is that people like this gentleman are right in some areas. I'm sure that there are some things Open Doc [music] does, probably even more that I'm not familiar with that nothing else out there does. And [music] I'm sure that you can make some demos, maybe a small commercial app that [music] demonstrates those things. The hardest thing is what how does that fit in to a cohesive [music] larger vision that's going to allow you to sell um $8 billion$10 billion [music] of product a year. And one of the things I've always found is that [music] you've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out [music] where you're going to try to sell it.