Who influenced you to write in such a nonlinear way?
Surfactant causes the surface tension to change in a nonlinear way with changes in surface area.
I reorganized the permanent collection in a nonlinear way, not chronological or by technique".
It combines the ability to hear a voice reading with the capacity to search and access text in a nonlinear way.
When I'm nervous, I tend to ramble in a nonlinear way, or make people laugh with my unintentionally blunt responses.
Threading through it all is a narrative that finds its own nonlinear way through the realms of memory, and Fuller's remarkable ear and mimicking voice.
"It's a lot of data crunched in a nonlinear way in the right brain," says Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the M.I.T. Center for Digital Business.
Doctorow himself, in some recent books, has told his stories in a nonlinear way, as if trying to protect his fictions against Hollywood's appropriating gaze, and perhaps against the charge of being unprovocative, unoriginal and not unsettling.
Bruce Ferguson, dean of the school of the arts at Columbia University, said Mr. Paley's program "frees you to see the text in a nonlinear way and to make connections that you would not have otherwise made.
"The technology that the United States and its allies have been providing to the Chinese end up propagating in a nonlinear way that is unpredictable and unanticipated," said Peter Leitner, a senior strategic trade analyst for the Defense Department, who has been a forceful opponent of advanced technology transfers to China.
This was the first paragraph: "More and more often as my plays are performed in colleges and taught in universities, people ask me . . . who influenced you to write in such a nonlinear way?" The book itself — a gorgeous amalgamation of black-American history, culture, and dreams — was nonlinear.
