Non-operating activities include interest expenses, tax rates, and large non-cash items such as depreciation and amortization. By removing the non-operating effects, EBITDA gives investors the ability to focus on the profitability of their operations.
Thomas Edison once speculated: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
When someone on Foster's staff suggested that joke to the rest of the team, he said the whole writers' room was howling with laughter. Foster leads Microsoft's (, Tech30) Cortana personality team, a group of writers who draft the responses Cortana provides when people ask her chit chat questions. Those all fall under the personality team's umbrella.