"She used to think her son was merely a conceptual rather than a linear thinker, but now she was sure that he was downright differently abled."

Mr. Ganson is not a linear thinker, as his sculptures attest.

Found on the Planet of Technology, like all robots, they are linear thinkers attempting to multi-task.

Mr. Shaffer is a man of skeptical mind, a linear thinker and a humanitarian.

"Man is not merely a linear thinker," she said, drawing a line of mist in the air.

The other contains the more linear thinkers, who may be just as artistic but love to categorize what they are planting; they want to understand how they contribute to the order of things in the universe.

You're a linear thinker, you want to know why and how come and what the source of the problem is and how to work out a solution to it.

"He's a smart linear thinker, with iron self-control, tremendous pride and self-confidence, great leadership skills, great presentational skills, limited analytical skills and a commanding presence," said a diplomat who has sparred with Powell.

He was also possibly the most linear thinker in the history of the universe.

He is considered "the Disc's most linear thinker".