We’re looking at a screen inside our heads, like a computer screen. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanine made it sound like there was no one left in the Dauntless compound except the soldiers she sent back to guard the computers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Justyce reads the computer screen again, and it really hits him. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I only saw one swallow,” Genie said grimly, staring at the computer screen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On her desk, next to her computer, was a tin of loose-leaf tea. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was like showing up in Silicon Valley in 1986 with ten thousand hours of computer programming already under your belt. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Let me check my computer. If the painting is on loan, I can tell you.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, the robot’s computer brain was humming with activity. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rows of letters on the computer keyboard had looked like a toy to him, and he’d reached one finger up and tapped the space bar, over and over again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because of a computer malfunction? Fine. It’s not my problem.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A fancy fortune-teller with a bunch of college degrees. He uses science and computers to predict the future. He can tell you what’s going to happen in ten, twenty years.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tobin types on his computer and then picks up the phone. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There is a computer screen on a desk in the corner. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And with our newly acquired information sorted into a computer memory, we would be able to see which sort of civilization lived where in the Galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few years before he was born, in 1983, Time magazine did a twist on its person of the year feature and instead named the personal computer its “Machine of the Year.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But that was nothing compared to this, and almost all the work was being done by computers and robots. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Design an appropriate program which models the supermarket situation with its various constraints and instruct the computer to run through the program a few million times to see how often different outcomes result. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was stupid. We could have sold that computer to help pay down your debt.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He mentioned some of the achievements the school had made, and he emphasized how much they needed support at the Community Day Bake Sale to start a new computer lab. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A computer chip in their brains removed those sensations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to my desk and switched on my old computer. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A computer virus was the perfect piece of sabotage: invisible and instantaneous. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He said his other job was working with computers, but I still have trouble picturing him sitting in front of a screen all day. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The smooth female voice of the computer speaks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were both staring hard at the computer screen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yes, there were definitely Jesse-like computer geeks all over the place, heads hunched, laptops bouncing on their shoulders, backpacks overstuffed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before, she had been photons on a computer screen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I apply myself to a module in which Sam Walton waxes manic about the perpetual inventory system, then I cautiously get up from the computer to see if Howard is anywhere around. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for the computer to go through all its childproofing so that my site can load. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He only knew what the computer told him. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Bill Joy the computer legend would have been Bill Joy the biologist. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A computer who could process data on the spot and understand how to interpret it was more valuable to the team than a pool computer with more general knowledge. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We went to the computer and Mtisha started searching for black soldiers. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you calling me here so late?” he asks her, distracted, his eyes still focused on the computer screen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had always counted on these friends to loan me the adhesive of my choice, but then, seemingly overnight, their Scotch tape and rubber cement were gone, replaced with odorless computers and spongy mouse pads. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I turn on her computer and everything I need to know is there in her history—the sites where these plans come from, where this information can be gleaned. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your father is in a coma,” Jared says, looking up from his computer. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ogden Morrow convinced Halliday that Anorak’s Quest was better than most of the computer games currently on the market, and encouraged him to try selling it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The concept of a World Wide Web—a system for creating, organizing, and linking documents so they could be easily browsed over the Internet—was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had a bed, a desk, a computer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I'm glad I know enough about computers, because all I really want from the file is the list of 379 people who complained about the blanket. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing a baggy shirt and orange-tinted glasses, Hart was fitted with a wireless sensor on his head that fed his brain waves into a computer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” she went on, “you have your—¿como se dice? Your toys? Phone and computer. Like you never left.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Leda on my lap, I sit before the computer. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A humane society truly concerned about its children would worry less about oddballs, computer games, and clothing, and more about creating the kind of schools kids would never dream of blowing up. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it were not, one could make a killing on the stock exchange by having a computer that would remember tomorrow’s prices! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to access the color wheel on his computer and feverishly attempt to create something that would look metallic. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The computer printouts were at least brief, but both “The Problem of the Shadows” and “The Population Law: Our Country’s Biggest Mistake,” were full of big words. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt the information’s going to some computer somewhere to make sure no one’s gone astray. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When the Yorktown’s computer system tried to divide by zero, 80,000 horsepower instantly became worthless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Twenty-two minutes pass from the moment Renee begins playing with the computer program to the moment she says, “Ahhhh. That means something now.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ms. Carson apparently trusts all her coworkers, because she doesn't log off of her computer. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed that she had tears in her eyes; then she and my father walked over to the computer. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was about to get up to use a computer when somebody sat down at the table across from me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His head bobs between the messy draft and the computer screen, one word at a time. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Mothers’ Club of Lakeside Academy bought him a computer in 1968. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His glasses were on the edge of his nose, and his computer was on his lap. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

An image of his brain appears on a twenty-four-inch computer monitor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The girl on the computer screen had straight light brown hair while Emma’s was darker and wavy. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The computer. I thought maybe Dad and I could watch Star Trek on it.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The most entertaining part of the game by far was trying to get the computer to engage us in humorous conversation: Me: “Touch the cave wall.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the clock on the bottom right of the computer screen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get to a computer terminal and go over the Matsika list of acquaintances again,” said Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now he wanted to get to the place in the computer where he could type a message for Dennis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His large row house is trafficked by us rushing in and out, depositing papers, carrying file cabinets, computers, lamps, makeshift desks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t expect your computer to think for you. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet zero sits at the end of the computer and at the bottom of the telephone because we always start counting with one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The computer players were nearly half a lap behind. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

My personal dread derived from the obvious fact that it’s not only the software writers and computer geeks who get empowered to collaborate on work in a flat world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Trip jogged over to the line of computers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Look, if they could trace people through the computer, or through this chat room, wouldn’t they have found me a long time ago?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to the bottom of the stairs, Lydia called down, “Hey, Dad, I gave my old computer to Dill. He’s not stealing it.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

On the second floor, you pass by the computers. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

To her right, her personal computer is running three news aggregators at the same time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That’s what happens when you have four months of juvenile detention on your record that can’t be erased, along with a two-year ban on touching any computers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, it made sense that Jesse Dailey would have gravitated to a place like this, where he could use the gift he’d developed in grade school—taking computers apart and putting them together again. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Joey said, “But if I used my own computer at home, and I bought my own paper and everything, like, then I could print whatever I felt like, right?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

If she was good with computers, it was only as a hobby, and I doubt that a computer hobby would enable someone to fiddle with an Erudite simulation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The game ran on an ancient analog computer and was played on a tiny oscilloscope screen about five inches in diameter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I sat at the computer, my eyes closed, elbows against the desk, and listened to a voice singing in a minor key. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have Dell's work files on my computer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

James dropped into a chair and shook the mouse to wake up the computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The adult riders all had their faces buried in laptop computers or magazines. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a laptop computer, a litigation bag with the FBI insignia in yellow, and a box of maple sugar candies—acorns, wee pilgrims, in fluted paper cups. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the corner of my vision, I saw the scientists and doctors in their white scrubs, setting up machines and computers around me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Combining this information with what the computer already knew about our speed and so forth, we could fly to the moon and back without help from the ground. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also hung out in the computer room with Gates and shared those long evenings at ISI and C-Cubed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He managed to limp along through the terminal without complaint, his computer bag over his shoulder, a plastic shopping bag in one hand, and his suitcase in the other. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She punches a key and then runs a long-nailed finger down her computer screen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like her fellow West Virginian John Henry, the steel-driving man who faced off against the steam hammer, Katherine Johnson would soon be asked to match her wits against the prowess of the electronic computer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then they took a group of traders from Wall Street across New York Harbor to the military base on Governor’s Island and played war games on computers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Daniel was two grades above me and a real computer geek; he even had a CD writer at home, back when nobody had CD writers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Restricting the computers from joining the editorial meetings wasn’t a rule: it was a rule of thumb. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He types something on his computer and pulls up a series of documents that I’m not close enough to see clearly. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One of the Erudite scientists taps his own computer screen, and an image appears on the left wall. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison sat at his desk, working on his computer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Mom said I had to,” said Doug, who hated leaving his computer for anything but school or dinner. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At that point, only about twenty-one minutes were spent using the computer for fun, and twenty minutes on video games. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He slowly nodded, looking at the computer screen. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock on the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘It’s like the brain is a computer,’ I said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of a large window, Hype sits at a table that’s crowded with computer monitors, microphones, and headphones. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I go upstairs and turn on the computer and sign onto Facebook. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After she goes, I curl up on my bed, computer on my lap. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Number Two sat at the computer and with quick, agile fingers, typed a string of commands. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There had been no word from Babbage the day before, so when she got home she went straight for the computer to check her messages again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Look at a telephone or the top of a computer keyboard. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My mother had built it, piece by piece, a couple of years ago when she was getting some new level of certification in computer programming. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It looked as though Dudley had gotten the new computer he wanted, not to mention the second television and the racing bike. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Again, Bill Joy the computer legend might well have been Bill Joy the biologist. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Diana handed Mrs. Kennedy the schedule with a practiced smile, then looked back at the computer screen as Mrs. Kennedy left for the copier. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

While the women in Hampton Institute’s Engineering for Women courses were preparing for their new careers as computers, Mary Jackson managed the USO’s modest financial accounts and welcomed guests at the club’s front door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Syrian couple order Turkish coffee and eggs while we log on to a computer. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We ate dinner together every evening at six thirty, and then afterward, my dad logged on to the family computer, a beige Dell the size of a television set. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Mom, pass the phone,” Jasmin demands, reaching for the computer headset. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And this is why people’s brains are like computers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I need to find a computer or a phone. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Singleton sat down in a windowless room in Brigham City, his immodest investigator’s surroundings, put one of the discs into the computer, and discovered what looked like nonsense. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And they wanted to be able to do any of these things from anywhere to anywhere and from any computer to any computer—seamlessly. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Michael was a computer whiz, the kid who did the “Best of the Web” list-ing for the paper each week. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I was a child and he was a scary figure on Mom’s computer monitor with a gruff voice and a bushy mustache. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This was the era when computer programs were created using cardboard punch cards. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She would rest her hands on his shoulders and stare with him into the blue glow of the computer screen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was my father's dream that one day the people of the world would be connected to one another through a network of blocky, refrigerator-size computers, much like those he was helping develop at IBM. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He may tower over Clyde, but he still didn’t want to be alone in a dark alley—or a computer room—with the guy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As they settled in front of James’s computer, Emily fanned herself with her notebook. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At 15:00, the designated hour, we stand tense and silent in the back of a room full of screens and computers and watch Beetee and his team try to dominate the airwaves. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He said his name was Darrin, but as soon as I started asking him questions he got bored with me and started to go back to the computer screen. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’m the one who finds the computer,” I say, “what should I look for?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If she left her phone here, maybe she left one of her computers, too,” Emma said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Without consulting the computer, we list the places we might go, taking turns. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Back then, we had dial-up Internet, which took forever, and then once we were connected, everyone took turns using the computer. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Not a year after the end of the war, the familiar announcements of vacancies at the laboratory, including openings for computers, began to appear in the newsletter again. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She pushed away from the computer and twirled on her chair. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When you look around at 24/7’s call center, you see that all the computers are running Microsoft Windows. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

That’s a sort of computer thing you can play games on. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s more of a closet with 3 huge filing cabinets, a desk, and an ancient computer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But only those, and, afterward, Charles gets to use your computer.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Making computers work requires a particularly rational mind. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Jewish kid in my computer science class was bragging, saying his religion has Hanukkah, and he gets presents every day for, like, a whole week. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benedict signaled Number Two, whose fingers flew over the computer keyboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He may tower over Clyde, but he still didn’t want to be alone in a dark alley—or a computer room—with the guy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I punch my time card in the computer like they showed and went to fetch my apron. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Basically it is made from computers and cables. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the computer, the Internet, and the fortunate gift of a CD writer from a friend, I was in business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But Mr. Curtain needs some way to get to those computers,” Kate pressed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I did was sit down at my computer and write a blog post. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Around the same time, Dorothy Vaughans relative, Matilda West, possibly the black computer accused of disloyalty, was fired from her job at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A computer memory is basically a device containing elements that can exist in either of two states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in the video on the computer screen looked and sounded so much like Mom. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at the computer, waiting for a miracle. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody raced around the room and sat down at separate desks to start tapping on the glass computer pads. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Sat around the house mainly, watching television and playing solitaire on the computer. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Marie is already tossing toppings from the translucent containers into the trash, counting receipts, and double-checking them on the computer. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The manager types the number into one of the gray computers; $3 buys fifteen minutes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Stepping over Ernie’s legs, she came over to the computer and began wiping down the keyboard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The copy place is busy: there are college kids sitting at computer terminals, two men with a stroller at the counter, and people waiting for the copiers. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He swallows, swivels back around to face the computer, and puts a hand on the mouse but doesn’t click the screensaver away. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mom reads, the receptionist types at her computer, Mrs. Frost looks at a magazine, and the baby sleeps on Carol’s lap, his little fingers still clutching a pink plastic block. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would then by modem transmit my pages directly to the main-office computer, from which only Hoagland could download files with his password. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again I point to Rose’s computer and then to the words me too. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A choice made by the manufacturer when the computer was designed determines this, and nothing can change it now. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“My father taught me a lot about mechanics and computers,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he spent many of his nights in PC bangs, the ubiquitous East Asian Internet cafes where young, mostly unmarried, men play computer games and surf the Internet around the clock. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The word spread: “There’s a light-skinned guy who plays music on a computer. You’ve never seen anything like it.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Remember how you’re always telling me I have to quit right away when I’m playing computer games and you think it’s time for me to do something else?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“That art is worth more than every laptop in the computer lab. It was commissioned specifically for us. Personally, I think our donor wasted his money.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was dark out, but there were still men and women working, tucked away in their cubicles, their eyes glued to their computer screens. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You know," he says, “you really should be using a computer." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Built into a circular room, and controlled by a computer, the arm could be made to turn at whatever speed was necessary to imitate the loads we would experience under various flight conditions. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s job is something confusing with computers and universities. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As I gulped it down, my computer’s sensors silently took note, scanning the barcode and adding the calories to my total for the day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

You fill out a survey, a computer analyzes your answers, then it cross-references with the other surveys. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that weird buzz that the air sometimes takes on when you’re sitting alone in silence, or the faint hum of a computer monitor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Emma and Chess went back to staring at the computer screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Also, glancing at the Hab's main computer, I saw the temperature had gone up to 15°C. Something very hot and very explodey had happened, and I wasn't sure what. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer after his freshman year of college, Chris returned to Annandale and worked for his parents’ company, developing computer software. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “We don’t have a computer. We use a typewriter.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed doorway after doorway revealing grown-ups hunched in front of computers or talking on the phone, messy stacks of paper piled around them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then the woman in the funky glasses walks away from her true love in the suede shirt at computer terminal #3. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We could borrow his computer and read it.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while I’d look up, look at my computer, its dead, dark face gleaming in the dim light, and I’d hesitate. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“This is Raven. My virtual assistant. She’s a computer program designed to assist players in the scavenger hunt.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thanks to my computer and modem I was getting exclusive tracks few people had access to, but that created a problem for me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her problem wasn’t finding Mr. Curtain’s secret computer room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Barring a complete computer failure or other critical event, Vogel's vast knowledge of astrodynamics would never come into play. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dining room table had been cleared to make space for a computer. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Surprised, I reach over to pause the Pink Floyd song on my computer, swiping right to answer the call. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Matthew is sitting with his nose three inches from his computer screen, his eyes narrow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Fine. When Picasso designs a computer game, I’ll let you know.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In railroad offices in Mexico City, in a large control room, computers plot train routes with blue and green lines, and at least once every six months the screens flicker, then black out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“This is the computer Mom lets us use for homework and stuff,” Emma said, putting the battered Dell laptop beside his and opening the screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was on one of our archaic computers, checking to see if BJ’s online had an item we had sold out of in the store, a forty-dollar piece of junk chiminea. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Meantime, computer technology, such as it was, was getting more sophisticated. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“This is pathetic,” I say out loud, pushing back from my computer. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She lifted the computer screen for Arachne to see, but the spider snapped, “I’ve memorized it, child. I have an artist’s eye for detail.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She punched a string of numbers on the key pad, and the building’s central computer noticed that Jaax Nancy was attempting entry. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the dream of college officially dead and buried, he sent my brother to technical school, hoping he might develop an interest in computers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I went into my closet and found some computer cleaner and it did the trick. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He told me, ‘I just took my eyes off the road for a second because I was looking at my computer.’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the characters were just dissimilar enough to slip through the computer’s net. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Stacy ignores us and starts talking about how boring her computer elective is, and then everyone starts talking about their electives and how fun or awful they are. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The nurses will be huddling by the computers, coffee mugs in hand, for change of shift. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After several hours of discussing alternative solutions, he offered to supply the class with a set of computers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some of it is very delicate, and even something as small as a human hair might get stuck in the wrong place and cause a computer to give a wrong answer. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Alvarez read some announcements from a computer printout, but there was nothing about the soccer team. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a computer brain packed full of parenting advice, and the lessons she was learning on her own, the robot was actually becoming an excellent mother. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A second bookshelf by the bed was crammed to capacity with old computer magazines and Dungeons & Dragons rule books. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They entered the computer room and sat down beside each other on the edge of the bed. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The harder I'm pressured to use a computer, the harder I resist. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then the computer shut itself off and I had to power it back on to get the login prompt again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They are inundated with music emitting from a wide array of electronic devices, toys, and computers offering a limitless number of musical selections. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, after a second, Mom started yelling in Farsi at her computer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had a very powerful computer in that back room, the kind I had, homemade, no machine ID, untraceable, the kind you never dock to an Ethernet cable, to keep yourself invisible. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone had BlackBerrys pressed to their heads and there was a sea of cables underfoot for all the computers and printers and copiers they’d brought in. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. And I still don’t have my phone or computer back.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Good, it’s empty,” Clyde said as they woke up the computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The development of high-speed computers makes possible numerical experiments on the collective motion of thousands or tens of thousands of points, each representing a star, each under the gravitational influence of all the other points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computer hummed and whirred, converting all the information to binary. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The hours pass slowly without her smiling face on the other side of my computer screen. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I shut off my computer and flopped across my bed, letting my head fall backward so that the blood rushed to my brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And how did a computer bug tie in with what he had seen the night before? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I turn on the computer because it’s a connection to the world, and maybe that’s what I need right now. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I open Sallie Swain’s eyes and search her room for a computer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Your computer is fine. Leave the men alone. They'll be done soon and then we can have lunch." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She switched on the detector and then took a floppy disk from her pocket and slipped it into the computer that controlled the Cave. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the cursor on a computer screen her eyes moved from the first row to the second, then stopped. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He shut down the computer and hid the graph paper map in the bottom drawer of his desk under a stack of video game cheat guides. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Big D asked me to fix his computer. It needs some new DVD drives. He burnt his out making all them bootlegs.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“We just don’t know. But we want to find out. And soon. Before these computers leave the plant.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Chinese doing computer drawings for Japanese homes, nearly seventy years after a rapacious Japanese army occupied China, razing many homes in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is difficult for me to imagine him there, surrounded by computers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, both harbored smoldering class resentment at people whose parents bought them computers and $100 pairs of Timberlands and unquestioningly paid for their college expenses. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last few decades, we have invented countless time-saving devices that are supposed to make life more relaxed—washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible for him to focus on anything else for too long when the computer was on, which it always was. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reassured her I was totally on it, but when I didn’t turn back to my computer right away, she waved impatiently at me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Things are really awful, in case you didn’t notice. Do you get that we’ve lost everything? Everything, Ives. Pictures we can’t replace. Mom’s art. My lacrosse stuff. Dad’s computers. All our furniture. The house.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“A mute on a computer or phone means no sound at all.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He typed on his computer until his eyes shut from exhaustion, only to suddenly jump up and begin pacing the room, swinging his arms, giving himself a pep talk: “Come on, Pel. Come on.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the future, Holmesy. It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls. The file is in your email.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he realized it wasn’t a computer at all, but some kind of camera. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t chosen Michigan because of its computers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Pressure gauges and computer terminals lined the opposite wall A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn’t notice us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could. But this isn’t a problem I can solve with solar cells and computer systems, Elizabeth. Your mother’s best at dealing with friend stuff.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

All I’d wanted to do was get her back home safe, and now I had to get home myself, back to my computer. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I opened a console window and keyed in the command word to activate my computer’s self-destruct sequence: shitstorm. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Momma won’t let me use the computer for any social media. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Is all the adoption information on the computer?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She came and looked at the computer screen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The computers are supposedly old as hell, but still, maybe I can read the rest of the emails once I get there. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I sit down on my bed and take out my computer. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stared at the model of the Parthenon on her computer screen and thought about the argument with Athena. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yep. My parents took my phone. I can only use the computer for school.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sadhu Kumar, who rents his extra bedroom to Dell, comes down with three computers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the computer, I saw the extended map, where the stream becomes a river, bypassing a town. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Together the three computers would monitor and analyze all aspects of the spaceflights, from launch to splashdown. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He put another log into the wood stove and sat down at his personal computer, which was located next to his clock-repair bench. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went up to the counter and started saying my name, but the cheerleader at the computer cut me off. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It was part of an effort to foster a computer network that would enable scientists to share their research more easily. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the mathematicians and computers as well. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing, Kyle?” his mom asked when she came into the room and found him typing on her computer. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

If we keep at it, we will become a computer to end all computers, capable of fusing all the thoughts of the world into a syncytium. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light of the computer screen gives her face an eerie glow. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He straightened up his desk, shut down his computer, and removed a floppy disk that contained his daily diary, his “Chronology of Events.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The examiner checked her identification and assigned her computer No. 12. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then I went downstairs to the family computer in the basement and sorted through the boxes of software until I found the bookkeeping program Mom uses for her store. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm slammed his fist on the table next to the computer. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond their own voices they could hear, drifting down the drafty halls, a frenetic, muted tapping—the sleepless Number Two on her computer keyboard—and from somewhere above them the occasional creak of a floorboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back to my computer, ready to hit the power switch and shut this whole thing down when— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to his worn, continuously revised spreadsheet, he and Eric had two weeks left to find work and get their first paychecks before this new life in Chicago crashed like some cheap computer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computer wasn’t this far to the left when I first came up here. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I used the computer right after you,” he says, “and when I typed in Gmail, it pulled up your account. You probably should have logged out.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I made a program—that’s a set of instructions—to let the Shadows talk to me through the computer. They told me what to do. They said they were angels, and—well...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At university, he had been brilliant with electronics, he fixed CD players that were considered lost causes, and his was the first personal computer Obinze had ever seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most afternoons were spent on homework, which the computer sent to the teachers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m always using the search function on my computer to find may in my work, because it is often wrong and should be might. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opportunity number two was that the mothers of Lakeside had enough money to pay for the school’s computer fees. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Treasury Department uses a computer model to examine the effects of tax cuts on various income groups but does not look in detail fine enough to differentiate among those within the top 1 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Luke’s mind was still racing with frantic plans when he heard someone coming back to the computer room. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw the access codes to the computer servers the League wants access to. I have a photographic memory, and I’m good with numbers and codes.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She went over to one of the registers, which was actually a computer, and typed something on the screen with her finger. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m clearing my mind, quieting it, I become aware of the sounds coming from Sausun’s computer. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She whirled around and pointed at the computer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias and I walk through it and enter a plain office that contains just a desk, a computer, and two empty chairs. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The computers were passing underneath a bizarre machine—cantilevers, wires, and hydraulic arms. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

To get him to think and talk, you had to pry him off the computer, which wasn’t easy. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of my fellow servers, everyone who lacks a working husband or boyfriend seems to have a second job: Nita does something at a computer eight hours a day; another welds. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Renaissance man of the plains, he is a farmer, welder, businessman, machinist, ace mechanic, commodities speculator, licensed airplane pilot, computer programmer, electronics troubleshooter, video-game repairman. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t take her eyes off her own computer screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“They receive commands from our computers in the transmitters we injected them with . . .” At this, he presses his fingers to the injection site to show the woman where it is. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Finding that she was cleared to enter AA-5-, the computer unlocked the door and beeped to let her know that she could proceed inward without setting off alarms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about the clues Dylan and I found on Quinton’s computer. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

After several loud clanks echoed through the ship, the computer reported success. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them is a glass table with a silver box on it—a computer—and a keyboard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us stared at the computer screen as we read it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t like the delays caused by my computer’s being underpowered. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a computer station near the back and started making notes listing how I’d messed up. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t bother to look up from the PowerPoint that he’s creating on my computer. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then Finn saw what Chess had written in the search box on his computer: “Andrew Greystone obituary.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She placed the food on my desk next to my computer. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

By the time the work trickled down to the computer’s desk, it might be just a set of equations and eye-blearing numbers disembodied from all physical significance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thus the heat expelled by the computer’s cooling fan means that when a computer records an item in memory, the total amount of disorder in the universe still goes up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I didn’t think I’d ever hear back, I wanted to know what to do with my feelings, so I walked over to the computer lab and e-mailed Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out Dill’s computer, went to YouTube, and set up an account for him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, there were stomping footsteps in the computer room. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I stepped off the conveyor, the HR computer directed me to a nearby cafeteria that looked like something out of an old prison movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Again she returned to the computer in search of her husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She also had news of her own: She was ditching her job as a computer specialist at the Federal Reserve and going traveling—not for weeks, but for months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m kind of like...all around me. I’m in the computer. I’m in the walls.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He keeps on his computer a roster of 1,600 names and addresses, and on each entry is a note describing the circumstances under which he met the person. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were just doing some research on the computer. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“No way. It’s my turn to use the computer. You hogged it all last night.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Fancy mathematical terms and reams of statistical correlations and computer printouts do not in themselves produce understanding, social scientists’ claims notwithstanding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Programming with cards,” one computer scientist from that era remembers, “did not teach you programming. It taught you patience and proofreading.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered how far away it was, so I did a quick search on my computer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He is one of the brightest and most perceptive of Volpe’s students, a technophile who spends a lot of time taking apart and putting back together gadgets of all kinds—computers, sound equipment, phones, cameras. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I close my computer, and in only a handful of minutes a woman comes into the room to tell us that lunch is being served. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As the Yale computer scientist David Gelernter says, “Bill Joy is one of the most influential people in the modern history of computing.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As it grew, so did my confidence, for my computer told me they were precisely on centerline as they overtook me. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hit send and turn off the computer. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

So her computer brain went to work, and she identified the light. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I rifled through Johanssen's computer today and found an endless supply of digital books. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of choosing from the likely suspects—William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Tubman—I use my computer to look up the names my grandfather’s been batting around. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She sits before the gray computer, and Jasmin stands between her legs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The computer says it’s located right above us, and sure enough, when I look up, the magazine drops from the ceiling and glides right into my arms. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I spend lunchtime in the library at the computer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The woman clicks on a mouse and looks at her computer. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The apartment itself was dominated by two computers that sat across from the front door like twin shrines. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I might even be able to put a call through to him if the computer has a microphone.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ms. Steck continues to work with another student on a computer in the back of the room. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So Eric went back to his computer and called up a graphic program. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he logged off and got back to where Lydia and Travis were sitting, Lydia was back working on her computer, and Travis was back texting. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I will have to retrieve my computer later. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s insistence also had a collateral effect: one of the white computers in the branch, in the same limbo position as Katherine, had herself gone to Pearson to petition for a raise. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Yorktown’s computers had just received new software that was controlling the engines. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I think of writing it as a song, but instead I sign onto the computer and send a message to Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the commander was not prepared to risk a computer crash in the middle of an alert, and so doused his cigar in the coffee cup of a passing gremlin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He asked the class how many of us were taking computer science, and everybody but me and this one girl who didn’t speak English raised their hands. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most colleges didn’t have computer clubs in the 1960s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Cara watched as the newspaper took shape in front of her eyes on the computer monitor. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the array of butterflies Finn had lined up on his computer screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She’d just dialed my kill code, the one that told my computers to fry themselves and all traces of my hacking. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait to take it to school and introduce my new computer to everybody there. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But then Emma saw what had been hidden in the drawer beneath the paper: Mom’s work computer. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once, while rifling through the toolshed, I came across a poster advertising an IBM computer the size of a refrigerator. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Be more specific, Nate,” Libby says, clicking away at her computer. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the computer screen, red is overtaking green. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair covers the camera as she peers into the computer. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was still tracking the storm from his computer in Spain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She typed my name into the computer, hit Enter, then asked how many names I wanted. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She woke up his computer and wrote a story. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

That is where three meals a day for thirty-seven thousand animals are designed and mixed by computer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His ATK Systems colleagues would come to him for computer advice rather than go to the IT department. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hate computers for getting their own section in the New York Times and for lengthening commercials with the mention of a Web site address. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Monday night we’re back at Joe’s house, printing up names on his computer and drawing red circles around them and red slashes through them. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I took a perfect sighting, the computer would tell me that my error was 0. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computers occupied the usual place of honor in the center of the living room, with an array of tangled cables, boxes for hard drives and webcams spread across the floor. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, both computers, electronic and human, had performed like a dream. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Luckily most people were over by the computers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thomas was more than fine with lying low—finding that computer station and punching in the code was more than enough responsibility for him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He slammed his fist down on the computer desk so hard, it hurt. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There are ribbons of electromagnetic material in the lining of the bookcases. The strength of those magnets will be modulated by our maglev computer based on the call number you input.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There was never any place to plug in the vacuum, as every outlet was occupied by some member of the computer family. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I have the schematics in the computer, so nothing was a surprise. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief minister there was starting a new network of schools; all the children would receive laptop computers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were dog photos tacked behind his computer, and some of the same editing books Emily recognized from her dad’s shelves sat next to a bobblehead collection. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Also I wouldn’t be homesick at all because I’d be surrounded by lots of the things I like, which are machines and computers and outer space. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What if the computer lost power or seized up and stopped working during the flight? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No longer could zero sit to the right of nine, just as it does on the top of the computer keyboard; zero had a position in the number line that was all its own. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Around ten o’clock, after everyone else has gone to bed and Kate still isn’t home, I turn on the computer again and check my Facebook account. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Sixty seconds with the computer comes with a penalty.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

In Honduras, each Sunday after church, Enrique’s family takes Mirian’s children to the airport, where they call their mother from a computer telephone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s why we have lodged a protest with the Department of Bantu Education. We think that the computer must have made a mistake. We hope to hear from them in a week or two.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we talked a lot. She showed me the computer. She—she wanted me to go to the rally, but I was too scared.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others deal with “inbound” calls—everything from tracing lost luggage for U.S. and European airline passengers to solving computer problems for confused American consumers. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Buzz was checking with our computer, which indicated we were on the right flight path. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned to Rowan, who still sat at the computer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I take it on faith that computers, although lacking souls, are possessed of a kind of intelligence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the computer beeps in protest, I look up and see a warning. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They entered a conference room where Harris sat at a computer. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As they settled in front of James’s computer, Emily fanned herself with her notebook. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She walks over to her computer, which is plugged into a speaker, and hits a button. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to use his computer to keep the books, process orders, maintain inventory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Several cardboard boxes of busted laptops and computer parts sat in the corner, next to a rack of old car batteries and a modified exercise bike I’d rigged up as a recharger. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Annabeth took the Chinese handcuffs and held them next to her computer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She said, “Yeah, but if you printed a lie about me, my dad would sue you— and then your computer would be my computer!” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

While Sierra settled in at a desktop computer pad, the rest of the team returned to the Bibliomania board game. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The game entailed using a computer mouse to direct a virtual tank through a battlefield. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cadres of expensive professionals—lawyers, accountants, computer gurus, helpline responders—drain vast sums of money from the economy to clarify poorly drafted text. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I worked transferring books to computer discs, to cut down on storage space and replacement costs, they said. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom Writers I was one of the ones chosen to get a computer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sighed heavily, then showed me what he’d been looking at on the computer. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure it will function properly, but if it does, the computer will be a gift to Dell from me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And the account number was saved on his computer. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I finished my religion paper. But I have to type it up on your computer when we get back. I think I’m ready for finals, which is good, since we have an ank-pray to an-play.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pocketed the pins and then went to my computer and looked up a map of 8328 Bartlesville Avenue. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When we reached his car, not only did he say thank you, but he also asked if I was interested in a job at his computer company. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The computer began to bring the lights up slowly, allowing my eyes to adjust. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sam and Joe had become the schools roaming tech support, a rapidly spreading phenomenon among geeks as hard-pressed and technophobic school districts turned to their onetime social outcasts to help run their computer systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fifty years old and many years into her second career, she reinvented herself as a computer programmer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Upstairs in his office there is a brass Ganesha sitting cross-legged next to the computer, a wooden Christ on the Cross from Brazil on a wall, and a green prayer rug in a comer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the room are more computers and a big desk, where another nurse sits. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids were now accessing television programming on computers—including phones, the Internet, and other gadgets. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I send the message and wait around the computer, organizing the pills into groups of three, then ten, when really I’m hoping for something from Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had never met Babou in person, only over a computer screen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For flat runs, he had the Norden bombsight, an extremely sophisticated analog computer that, at $8,000, cost more than twice the price of the average American home. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She found no phones or computers in the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

If they’re not waving penlights in your eyes or reading the printouts that come tumbling out from the bedside printers, then they are watching your vitals from a central computer screen. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A psychologist explains a computer simulation in which activation builds up in a neuron until it fires “like popcorn in a pan.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If the NJ police were onto me, they would have hit me right after my first hack into that server, in the middle of the night, and seized my computer—and me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter whether the people who hovered over her had fat laps or computer brains. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stare at the blinking cursor on the computer screen, and I type in my paradox and hit Send. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Jeanine’s so smart you can see it even before she says anything. Like ... a walking, talking computer.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At Base Camp he pored over reams of computer printouts detailing logistical minutiae: menus, spare parts, tools, medicines, communications hardware, load-hauling schedules, yak availability. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We find adapted computers, talking boards that speak the words, push-button systems, and even devices that work with blinks or head nods. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I got to stay in our apartment all day, learning some stuff from Nana and then mostly from my computer. 1,508 days of studying from the comfort of my bedroom. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday sat at the computer terminal, composing a letter, and, with the clerk’s help, making several large-sized signs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Nobody would care if he were a Mormon or a Jesuit or an Orthodox Jew, let alone a computer geek. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left The Wrongfully Convicted on the table, gathered my other stuff, and then Trevor and I walked to the nearest computer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Holding her breath, she clicked the red arrow and watched the computer do its thinking spiral, then slowly load a new page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For instance, if a butterfly flaps its wings, it might create just enough wind to throw off a computer’s long-range weather predictions. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Atsbani, the computer science teacher, had been so extra about the whole situation. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

And at the computer, typing away furiously, sat a girl. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I passed Aaron’s father at his computer and grabbed a book off their shelf in the living room—Latin Roots. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Checking out my suit, I saw the antenna had plowed through my bio-monitor computer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Granny’s birthday. She’s about eighty years old and belongs to the Portuguese tribe. How many people are there like that on the city’s computer?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dudley was sniffling in the back seat; his father had hit him round the head for holding them up while he tried to pack his television, VCR, and computer in his sports bag. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I was standing in front of a black man just like my father, but this one was wearing a tie and let me play with his computer. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And I go into shops and take things I want, like pink biscuits or PJ’s Raspberry and Mango Smoothie or computer games or books or videos. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Was he sure of this when he went to his computer and saw my email address? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I blink the tears from my eyes, wipe my cheeks with the heel of my hand, and let him steer me toward the door behind the computer screen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Like most people, she had left her computer on for the night, settling for “standby” mode. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Totalitarian systems depend on a monopoly of information and force, and too much information started to slip through the Iron Curtain, thanks to the spread of fax machines, telephones, and, eventually, the personal computer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dynamic forces behind this era of globalization were breakthroughs in hardware—from steamships and railroads in the beginning to telephones and mainframe computers toward the end. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

No matter what I do, I catch myself glancing over at my computer screen, waiting for the Skype call to come in as the seconds tick by at a glacial pace. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After school, I went into Dad’s office before he got home from his therapy sessions, sank into his big desk chair, and Googled egg drop ideas on his computer. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a computer in the basement with a program called Mavis Beacon, which gave lessons on typing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And now I find myself behaving exactly like she used to: polishing off the hall bottle of red left over from dinner last night and snooping around on his computer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one eye on my computer, I pick up the guitar, start making up words, the tune not far behind. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They took the computer and some of the kids’ clothes and put them in the car. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I turn off the computer with a shrug. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I leaned even closer to the computer screen and started to read. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

To do so meant going down to the basement and turning on one of the two personal computers, hers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew that she had recently bought a computer and was paying a college student to teach her how to use it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He went to the library computers every afternoon to write to her. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In these cases, one mixes pseudorandom numbers from several computers, then incorporates the physical indeterminacy of randomly fluctuating voltages from a “white noise” source. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting at her computer desk, sipping coffee and tapping keys. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

At the end of one visit, I showed Deborah how to get online with an old computer someone had given her years earlier, then taught her to use Google. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Use the“autogenerate” feature on our website to have a computer encrypt your clue, or get ideas from the Puzzlepedia page and create your own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

No e-mails, no instant messaging—not only couldn’t we afford a computer at home, but Mamá worried that we didn’t understand how to distinguish our real-life friends from dirty old men. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander over to the computer desk. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I ordered a new computer and stuff online. And Aidan, Luke, and I went to laser tag, and an arcade, and a go-cart track. I would have invited you, but I didn’t have your number.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a computer printout with a few brief lines of text. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My computer just dinged, with an incoming e-mail. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to turn the computer off, but it was like seeing a car wreck—you keep looking. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But then—boom! — the personal computer revolution happened, and they had their ten thousand hours in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Raskin did not consider his later work in computer design at Apple to be a departure from music. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Roberta takes it off to another room, where, she says, a computer will “score” it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photo of the ancient parchment glowed on Jake’s computer screen: The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He assured us that the IT department was working overtime to try to identify the IP address of the computer used in the anonymous emails. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I turn on my computer and click on the tab to compose a new message. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A calendar entry on Quinton’s computer from the night they went missing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Today at school, I was really missing Rowdy, so I walked over to the computer lab, took a digital photo of my smiling face, and e-mailed it to him. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a computer and Internet at home?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, trying not to cry, dreaming of the perfect Melody-made computer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The tile was glowing like one of the tablet computer screens upstairs in the rotunda. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Soon after the accident, Stephanie, the older of the girls, had begun to play World ofWarcraft, using her father’s account and his computer and desk, peering into his hefty NEC monitor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Breaking out of the paraprofessional status of computer or math aide presented a challenge for all women, more so for the black women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Someday, people will be buying these in antique shops, and they’ll have tiny computers that they carry around with them”—which I think he probably meant as a joke, except he didn’t laugh. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They’re also computer geniuses who like to brag that they could “hack into this pathetic excuse for a secure network” anytime to change their grades. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Gregarious Games set a new standard for immersive gaming, and every time they released a new title, it pushed the envelope of what seemed possible on the computer hardware available at the time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I rise, walk over to my computer, and pick up my glass of water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The guy took his laser printer and started exchanging for other kinds of electronics, until he traded his way into a brand-new laptop computer. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After she had gone, Dell opened his computer and wrote up a report. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“We find the computers that control the simulation and destroy the data,” I say. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I punch his order into the computer as I try not to let my eyes wander. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He moved into the rotunda and did a quick card catalog search on one of the desktop computers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Their already substantial computer knowledge was growing daily—they were keeping pace with every advance or evolution of the Net and the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the computers are in pieces, strewn across the floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his gun away from me and shot the computer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After a while, our robot’s computer brain decided it was a good time to conserve energy. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some are still struggling with their paradox, and they summon Ms. Steck to their desks or to the computer lab. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Please, get off the computer,” his mom said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I will start by putting Pattie's accounting from Happy Polish on a new computer program. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I read them all, but you can’t be mad at me for not answering. It feels like homework, typing and staring at the stupid phone or the computer.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Well...okay, students. Hands up if you could read a book on a phone, tablet, or computer.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got a computer for my birthday last week. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computer causes the dials and gauges to move just as they would if various things were happening to the real spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chased her down the hall, catching up just as she was sliding into the chair in front of the computer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at my desk, staring at my computer screen. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The family computer was balanced on my lap. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

While it never pays to generalize, those who appear not to be the most computer literate often rely on keeping old- fashioned notes so that they don’t forget stuff like user names and passwords. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

"I think maybe he already guessed about the computer," I say. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like Jesse, they use computers to distribute a growing variety of information on subjects and in places to which access has long been tightly controlled: legal and medical data, academic libraries, stock trading, films. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radio failure was especially worrisome, because if the astronauts couldn’t talk to anybody they would have to do all the navigating back from the moon, without help from radar tracking stations, and computers on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The HR computer complimented me on my healthy appetite. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine Violet at home right now, on the other side of the computer, her perfect mouth with its perfect corners turned up, smiling at the screen, in spite of everything, no matter what. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She sets her phone down—thank God—faces her computer, and mutters, “Friggin’ patriarchy, I swear.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Me and Leo sit side by side, staring at light and colors radiating from the computer screen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They experience background music in computer games, cartoons, TV shows, films, on iPads, radios, and ringtones. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I had hoped to update her on what Dylan and I found on my brother’s computer, since I haven’t gotten the chance yet, but it’s clear she needs the rest. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I swing back to my computer, opening the tab to Stella’s YouTube page and scrolling to a video from last year labeled “Polypectomy Party!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And I knew exactly where to find a replica of that computer in the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

False color image of the Great Red Spot, in which the computer has exaggerated reds and blues at the expense of greens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts the scissors away in her desk drawer and opens a file on her computer’s desktop marked “Sunshine Buddies.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He had a laptop computer in a rugged military-style carrying case. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Whisperer’s computer circuitry was safely hidden beneath the stone floor, its chair and helmets made of strong metal. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It ran faster than any computer she’d ever had, could access satellites or Hephaestus-TV broadcasts from Mount Olympus, and ran custom-made programs that could do just about anything except tie shoelaces. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tell my mother I forgot to tell friends to cover me for homework, and get on the computer to let Rhiannon know that it’s not likely I’ll be able to see her today. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“My criminal record, I mean. They’re nothing that serious, but I wasn’t allowed to touch a computer for two years.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One rapidly punched keys on a computer as the other two consulted large books. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drum my fingers anxiously on the keyboard, and squint at my reflection in the screen while my computer starts up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She had spent the past week mostly on her computer, going back and forth between researching Melissa Taylor and researching teenage birth mom support groups. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you stand between Emma and me, and you can go back and forth between looking at both of these computers with us. You might see something we miss.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Already jam-packed with computers and equipment, the cramped space had turned positively claustrophobic with the many spectators now squeezing into it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old computer monitor gazes up at me from its spot on the floor. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Leavitt worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a computer, as they were known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Of course. I have your account information on the computer.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

When he brought the new-old computer down to #22 and Sadhu saw how it worked, the guy's eyes almost popped out of his head. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s nice,” my mom said, and she turned back to her computer. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Programming, the installation of software, getting computers to speak properly to one another, all require very particular languages, protocols, and conventions—in sharp contrast to the emotional, visceral, manipulative drama of the political system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chitchat ends quickly and a geometry worksheet pops up on Princeton’s computer screen. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dad brings down the cover of the laptop so hard it’s a miracle there aren’t computer keys bouncing off the ceiling. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Long hours indoors in front of a computer screen had bleached the glow from his skin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They powered up all three of the computers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, this isn’t your computer. It belongs to everyone.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

With all the county’s water mains on emergency shutdown, and endless glitches in the computers trying to redirect what water is left, he’s been transporting water manually to high-priority facilities. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The longer or more complex the program, the more cards the programmer fed the computer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I opened my computer again and searched for her name. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I upload them onto the computer and put them in a file. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The computers had taken on water and were nonoperational. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

For most cases, the pseudorandom numbers generated by computers are good enough. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the launch phase of the mission, a computer in the Atlas rocket, programmed with the launch coordinates, communicated with Mission Control. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He hands me a blank sheet of computer paper and says, "I need your full name, your address, date of birth, social, height, weight, and eye color. And a hundred bucks." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Wow,” I said, sitting down in front of the new computer she had set up at my desk. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a huge chamber, the walls—half naked rock, half polished steel—lined with computer equipment, electronic meters, machines that blinked and flickered with a life of their own. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The woman looked him up in the computer. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A computer geek who explains himself through Dickens is less remarkable a phenomenon than one might think. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next couple of days were spent going through Immie’s computer files. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Had he finished it and left it on his computer or something? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The back room looked like a combination garage, college dorm, and computer lab. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Midway through Gates’s second year at Lakeside, the school started a computer club. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He's a lot nicer to me since I made Dell a computer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then I turned my computer on and played 76 games of Minesweeper and did the Expert Version in 102 seconds, which was only 3 seconds off my best time, which was 99 seconds. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jack’s letter was on top, written on half of what looked like a computer printout, folded over several times. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dell shut the computer and stared up at the ceiling. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you ask James? I’m sure he can spare one of his dozen computers for your games.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re telling me magicians have the power to control computers with their magic?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s a successful architect who designs skyscrapers by using his feet to type, just like Aven does on her computer, and a woman who paints beautiful artwork that sells for quite a bit of money.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wait until everyone is asleep before I go on the computer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His mom had no games on her computer. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Our computer lab in the library only has twenty outdated computers for the entire student body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Come off it, George. You know we're entitled to search and seizure. We have reports of that computer being used for illegal purposes. Just a half an hour ago.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” she says, getting up from the computer. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a traditional enough room—dark oak and floor-to-ceiling shelving—but Artemis had jammed it with the latest computer technology. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“So he did,” Margaret said, not taking her eyes off the computer screen. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved to James’s computer, and he typed in “Griswold and Poe.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Inside, crowds of blue-shirted people sit around tables, typing on computers or bent over books or passing sheets of paper back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only girls in my life were the naked ones on my computer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Shannon shows the rest of the class how to make paper snowflakes, Catherine and I sit together in front of the one clunky classroom computer and do Web searches on communication devices. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She typed into her computer, tilted the monitor toward me, and pulled up a video. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And I can take Sandy and my books and my computer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I will still know how to write, how to speak, how to put together a computer, because that data was stored in different parts of my brain. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I choose a playlist and plug Hannah's speakers into my computer. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She went to her computer and found a Web page that listed every U.S. state and capital. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

His parents were beside themselves, unable to get him off the computer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’d checked on the computer for the warmest place in the country that week, and Miami was it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He glances over your head at the computer stations. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She held one finger beside the computer screen, inching the fingernail forward to touch every letter. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hate computers for replacing the card catalog in the New York Public Library and I hate the way they’ve invaded the movies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“She wouldn’t keep such important files on public computers. That would be illogical.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Eberhardts owned a home computer, which Roy was allowed to use for homework assignments and for playing video snowboard games. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed Tickled Pink and her sweet rose scent down the hall and around a corner until we came upon three long rows of wooden tables topped with computers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I push through that as quick as I can, and have about ten minutes of computer time left at the end. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There, he buried himself even deeper in the world of computer software. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The most amazing part is that Ms. G and Mr. Tu created a contract stating that whoever has the highest grade point average from now until graduation will win a computer for college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how we can. The computers are below the Whispering Gallery, tucked away beneath two feet of metal and stone. There’s no way....” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Using the same hypothetical numbers, they ran the program on the electronic computer, to the pleasing end that there was “very good agreement” between the IBM’s output and Katherine’s calculations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They’ll blame computer games and the Net. Life for geeks like me who are still in high school will be hell. ... It probably already is.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt saw that one of the large computer screens was brilliantly lit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computer minders of the two IBM 7090s being used to track the flight were ensconced at Goddard, and much of the analysis was being done in the Space Task Group’s Mission Planning Analysis Division. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a beehive of rooms full of computers, labs, research equipment, and testing ranges. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Inside the control room, I see rows of computers but I don’t really see them; there is a film covering my eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember having my own computer in Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I shut down my computer, unplug it, and bury it under a stack of books. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the foster home before last. My foster father did sumpin’ with computers. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His neuroscientist mother and computer repair shop father. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A large table occupies that space, covered with tools and scraps of metal and gears and old computer parts and wires. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor, a man old enough to be someone's grandfather, reads my information in the computer system and pokes at the bump on my head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can easily track and log wattage with the rover computer, but I need something I can drop off and leave behind. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t her friend, exactly, but we were friendly—we’d chatted a couple of times about our shared love of Harry Potter and Warcross and League of Legends and computers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the shows is on computer dating, and it reminds me of Adam. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The response was already becoming hysterical—the shooters were being described as computer geeks who played violent games for many hours, were outcasts in their school, and had a site on the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We still didn't have computers or law books, and I didn't have other lawyers on staff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I had spent so long on the other side of a computer monitor from him, watching him like an episode of Star Trek. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The electrical impulses in modern computers do, however, travel nearly at the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for such a young goose to understand technical things like computer brains and batteries and machines. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The computer voice recited the number, and Colin pressed 1 to be connected immediately free of charge, and on the third ring, a girl picked up. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The same computers sat on the same tables, surrounded by the same ratty chairs and lampless rooms with bare walls. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, a long wooden table was cluttered with scrolls, notebooks, tablet computers, daggers, and a large bowl filled with jelly beans, which seemed kind of out of place. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know when I’ll get to come again—I’m gonna start Knothole Baseball next week and I spend a lot of time teamin’ how to use my computer, so you know how it is. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were unlabeled, but it wasn’t hard to guess that the top button would be for an entrance outside the Whispering Gallery, and the one below it—that would surely be the computer room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They returned to the computer room a few minutes later. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I swivel the big computer monitor around so I can sit and not have my back toward the doorway or the big curtained window. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the main computer, during the blast, the internal pressure spiked to 1.4 atmospheres, and the temperature rose to 15°C in under a second. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the agency’s computing staffs, at Langley, Cleveland, Ames, and Muroc, traced their lineage back to the first pool, and to Tucker’s labor as the first female computer supervisor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The top of the desk was completely empty except for a shallow box filled with papers in one corner and a desktop computer in the other. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then he and Aunt Alice walked out, already discussing how much the computer might fetch at a pawnshop. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I stop, and I print out Alicia's e-mail, and then I shut the computer down. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday morning, Mom was back on her computer at the dinette table, and Hadley needed attention, so that meant me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dell then changed the font color on his personal files in his computer to correspond with his categorization. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The human computers crunching all of those numbers—now that the astronauts understood. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now it’s been fixed, he says, and I’m to get back to the computer immediately. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe her because it makes perfect sense! The most sensitive information that exists and it’s hidden on that computer, Tori!” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So with computers on the way and honor codes being drawn up, I’m going to kick off our diary with a special visit from two people who have been immortalized in Anne Frank’s diary. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I look through the rectangular window and see a nurse in violet scrubs walk past my room and over to the half-moon desk in the center of the hallway where there's a huddle of computers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From top to bottom, side to side, the place was covered in all kinds of machinery and wires and ducts and computers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She goes back to her book, and when the computer is ready, I open up a search engine. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you’ve seen it on those Web sites you visit—” “Oh my God! Mom! Have you been going through my computer?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

That same year, her mother was given permission to do her programming job remotely, which meant anywhere she had a computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

With Levi gone, Claire explains to me how to put the data into the computer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sat next to each other at his desk in front of his computer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother had typed up an explanation of Bengali wedding rituals on the computer and mailed it to all the Americans on the guest list. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Or this,” said Grace, summoning the photo of the cabin boy’s puzzle on Jake’s computer. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem, I don't know squid about computers. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, I avoid the cafeteria, where Tats would be waiting at our table, and log on to a computer in the library. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Papa took his worn blue coveralls off the coat hanger and pulled them over the work clothes he was wearing for his computer repair job; the coveralls looked like something an auto mechanic would wear. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When I get home, the first thing I do is sit in front of my computer with Riot curled around my feet as I compose an email. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lauren stood up, gathering her computer and books in such a hurry that one of her notebooks fell to the floor. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Jesse leaned back in their only armchair, stuffed and satisfied, in a rare moment away from the TV or computer screen. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He motioned to a chair which was placed in front of a computer terminal. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, my computer monitored my vital signs and kept track of exactly how many calories I burned during the course of each day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I can see what you mean,” Dill said, picking up his new computer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I said, “I want sixty seconds with die computer. That’s only fair.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

You can’t hold a pen or a pencil or type on a computer. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She unwraps me, turns, and types information into the computer. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I use Eduardo’s spreadsheets on the notebook computer John bought him last Christmas. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything else falls from his consciousness, like a computer screen going dark—but in a good way. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The big difference is that all these management tools, data, or even photos are not stored on your computer as software. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I go on his computer and check my email, making sure to write myself some notes about the last few days, so I can remember them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Part consultants and part teachers, computing supervisors had to be top-notch computers themselves, capable of grasping the needs of the engineer and clearly explaining the requirements to her subordinates. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t expect any communication from her here; we are not allowed phones or computer access, and I don’t expect she’ll write a letter. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“And the computers will be delivered early next week.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Averaging sixty-five miles per hour, the computer said it would be a nineteen-hour-and-four-minute trip. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Deftly he adds up our final scores on his pocket computer. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If pressed, “I can tell them that ties get caught in computer workings and can damage the computer or catch fire.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tracking stations captured the signals with their sixty-four-foot receiving dishes, then relayed this data plus voice communications through a jumble of submarine cables, landlines, and radio waves to the computer center at Goddard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe the scene outside the computer lab has something to do with it, but nobody else does anything mean the rest of the week. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Emma was pretty sure there was a way to set up a secret computer program to test various keys to Mom’s code, but it seemed like it would take too long to figure that out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I circle around the bank of desktop computers and inch past the end tables stocked with titles recommended for Pride Month. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They moved to James’s computer, and he typed in “Griswold and Poe.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s what the computer said. I assume so. It left Washington several days ago, and the show opens next week.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting at the desk in the study, and I see my clothes reflected there in the dark computer screen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just about everybody has seen a TV or computer with a plasma screen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Why would the computers have the same desire for recognition that they did? many engineers figured. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Would the Lakeside computer club, Rona wondered, like to test out the company’s software programs on the weekends in exchange for free programming time? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After dinner I sit down one last time in front of the computer. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She grabs a remote from the nightstand and points it at the speakers attached to her computer on the desk. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The old, hulking computer in my room was a bulky, unwieldy thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I get to the library, all the computers are, taken. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Modern data encryption uses a mix of the two techniques, allowing us to send messages and do business safely on our phones and computers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

First we are confronted—via an announcement on the computers through which we input orders—with the new rule that the hotel bar, the Driftwood, is henceforth off-limits to restaurant employees. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stomp off to my room—ignoring Nana’s pleas for me to come back—and log on to my computer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Vole had said, the computers were on their way out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She opened her computer, did a search, and ordered a red Stanford University T-shirt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Before commending himself to his destiny, however, the astronaut implored the engineers to execute one more check: a review of the orbital trajectory that had been generated by the IBM 7090 computer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“For sticking to your prior commitments, you will receive our special Prior Commitment Sticker prize: a complete set of Lemoncello Sticker Picture Games and a laptop computer to play them on! Enjoy.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“For the most part. We use a lot of computer resources.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad, and I took a shopping list over to Computer Renaissance in Annapolis, bought the parts, and J.T. put together a computer for us that weekend. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The story described the Coca-Cola truck driver who, distracted by the computer he used to get his delivery orders, killed a seven-year-old in the backseat of an oncoming truck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The one she doesn’t use for work. And maybe the letter’s on that. Or we can use that computer to get to the cloud, where she might have saved it.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When you signed on, you would put in how long you wanted to spend on the computer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But your phone and computer are bringing you a plot that is about your life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was allowed to move the rover on the computer, now that it had lost its communication with Earth after over ninety days. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She sets the computer down on the bed. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was no way, he said, that he could be replaced by a computer, because salesmen need that human touch, that twinkle in the eye. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For many men, a computer was a piece of living hardware, an appliance that inhaled one set of figures and exhaled another. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sasha was the brilliant one, the one who blazed through calculus, linguistics, physics, and computer programming with a kind of effortlessness. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only when he responded did I realize Radar was sitting at Margo’s computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Click on the mouse and all the computers will come on-line.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not long afterward, he built his first pair of NeuroLink glasses at his father’s computer repair shop, with his neuroscientist mother’s input. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The other night, I saw you video-chatting with a woman on the computer.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We took over the street in front of his house, ran the electricity out of his place, set up the computer, set up speakers, and borrowed a tent, and people came. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Calder and Petra looked at each other as Mrs. Sharpe disappeared to get a sheet of paper from the pile next to her computer. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he’s busy copying something down from the computer. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He saw a pile of computer components and stereo equipment on the dining room table, and he saw the four men. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ali swiveled away in his office chair to face his desktop computer. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As the instructor taps away at her computer, I brace myself for the worst. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Why would Mother and Father have their computers? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I look at his computer screen and see a picture of me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just to summarize again: The Apple-PC-Windows flattening phase was about me interacting with my computer and me interacting with my own limited network inside my own company. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I think this might be your lucky computer,” Mr. Shephard says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And every moment had been recorded in her computer brain. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lots of them seem as clunky and awkward as our room computer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I checked my computer to see if I had any Twitter messages from Bren. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A 2012 report from Symantec, a company that builds software to block computer viruses, found that around 67 percent of email is spam. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Men were engineers and women were computers; men did the analytical thinking and women did the calculations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, this isn’t your computer. It belongs to everyone.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I shut down the computer and got up, but I couldn’t get the wall post out of my mind, and for some reason it made me nervous and unhungry. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Mom says we’re the only ones who will be able to read her letter,” he said, pointing to the computer screen Emma had been poring over before they’d heard the voice like Mom’s. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After a while, I get out of bed, fill a glass with water, and wander over to my computer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“My dad will let us use his computer.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It could have been the army, to justify the computer searches and the other ones, the door-to-doors. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lives in a really crummy area and goes to a public school that has fifteen-year-old textbooks and no computers. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Levi Jr. turned four, Mary Jackson filed an application with the Civil Service, applying both for a clerical position with the army and as a computer at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I try to read my downloaded version of The Waves, and when that isn’t any better, I think, It's the computer. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Marcus insisted that he go, despite my protests, because he is good with computers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The majority of Langley’s female professionals had spent their time at the laboratory classified as computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was a big city, and probably somewhere within it were jobs, apartments, and plenty of computer stuff. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I did not study music,” he wrote, “there would be no Macintosh computers.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

To the guy tapping away on his laptop computer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Artemis put the computer to sleep and crossed to the main doors. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve been trying to convince Dad that we need a computer. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t needed to password protect his computer to keep them from prying or hide anything he didn’t want them to see. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a computer tablet with a wireless mouse. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“One of my friends, her son goes to a school on the mainland and do you know, they have only five computers in the whole school. Only five!” the other woman said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She held the screen door open and Genie made a break, tippy-toe quiet, for the computer. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Both of her parents worked, doing things on computers, which meant that they were home a lot of the time. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, all the teams were grabbing desks and firing up the tablet computers built into the furniture so they could explore the library’s online card catalog. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had to call me on my mother’s phone because, even though we had a computer, there were frequent power cuts and few places in Mingora with Internet access. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Daddy watches whatever she’s doing on the computer, feeding her a grape every time he eats one. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Shadow that the boy’s eyes were glinting too, the green of an antique computer monitor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Deliveries worked like this: First, the scanner mounted outside in the hallway would verify the delivery person’s identity and my computer would confirm they were delivering something I’d actually ordered. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dad doesn’t even glance up from the computer screen. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Even with a computer it was reckoned it would take at least four years, and the chances were very high that one would make at least one mistake, probably more. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Install rover's comm software on the other rover's computer, try from there. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get back, Tom is sitting at the dining room table looking at something on the computer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not the case that our internal computer always shines through, instantly decoding the “truth” of a situation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

George had been reading websites about transitioning since Scott had taught her how to clear the web browser history on Mom’s computer. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dad couldn’t do any work on his computer because of the power being out, so he stayed in the living room, not in his office. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The Flight Research Division is requesting two new computers,” Vaughan said. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I set my folder on the podium and turn my attention to the computer screen. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

After that Nick went out and bought himself a fast new computer. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although she knew that computers were now essential, she had never become reconciled to them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When this is done, and the information programmed into all our computers, I for one would be willing to take my chances. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oliver and I are going to use the computer.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I move like the Flash to the computers and log in to my email, IMDunn@woodsonrockets.org. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The high school freshman puts on a headset with a microphone and clicks on computer software that will link him through the Internet to his tutor, Namitha, many time zones away. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

My friend said that it would be easier for me now because we had the computers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Science calls her HeLa and she’s all over the world in medical facilities, in all the computers and the Internet everywhere. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She slid the computer into her lap and started searching. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I thought for sure we’d take the exam on a computer like we do when we practice, but they insist that this is tradition. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You know, I was thinking... Theresa is real busy with that stuff, so maybe you should do the final report for the science group. You know, on a computer.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and I came up with a contract stipulating that once the computers arrived the 35 students with the highest grade point average would win a computer when they graduated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So all I have to do is use the "Recent Documents" utility on her computer: point, click, and there it is. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can check his computer,” his mom said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The woman tapped a few keys on her computer, then shook her head. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What the hell are you working on that you need two computers going?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I was flying Columbia from the left side, with Neil in the center handling the computer, and Buzz reading the checklist from the right. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I guess Aluminum Man isn’t appropriate either, since he’s also made of titanium, steel, plastic, various polymers, and silicon computer chips.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dad said that the Government had programmed the computers with a six-digit calendar, which meant the year had only two digits. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Electronic computers were rare jewels, their million-dollar-plus price tags affordable only by large research universities and government institutions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I close my computer and I take off my glasses. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sure, he’d say, and he’d log off whatever program he was on, throw on a jacket, leave the computer running, and walk out with me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I turned the computer back on, the screen flashed to black and a crude graphic of a wizard appeared, accompanied by some ominous sound effects. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I help with their computer too. So they can Skype with your mom.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every step it was to perform was loaded into the on-board computer before it left Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simulators are imitation spacecraft which are hooked up to computers. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later every demo computer screen, monitor, phone, and tablet blinked, and their displays lit up with the picture of me covered in paint wearing the alien mask. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He caught a glimpse of a few words at the bottom of the computer screen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had never played hearts with real people before, only on a computer, and was losing badly. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were the computers downstairs and a third on the dining room table that the girls sometimes used. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He has inspired me to become an entrepreneur and start my own computer company. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I checked the national employee staffing schedules through the computer. Let's just say several of the Population Police got some unexpected days off.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He slung a leather satchel off his back, unzipped it, and produced a sleek silver laptop computer—one of the ones I’d seen in the workshop. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The only hints of modernization were a few simple computer interfaces in unobtrusive corners. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“And there are no computers in a car this old. Just a man and his machine.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It didn’t even look like McCoy had a computer, much less a printer. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Using a computer to generate a random ordering to the cards is the best though perhaps an impractical way to get random decks. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last but not least the thirty-fifth computer goes to . . .” and Ms. Gruwell turned to me and said my name. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a cause for quiet celebration and behind-the-scenes thumbs-up among all the female computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He types something into the computer stationed in the corner of my room. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the strangest thing about the new apartment, I thought when I arrived a week later, was how much like the old one it looked—bare, dim, lit by the glow of computer screens. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued his descent, with the computer predicting a perfect landing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When he rests the computer on the table, I make sure to push our glasses far away from it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And I remember Salim saying how he had some weird syndrome that made him think like a giant computer. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up early the next morning, just after eight, and went to the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When you can “program” for only a few minutes out of every hour you spend in the computer room, how can you ever get in ten thousand hours of practice? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In these early days of the computer revolution, programmers with that kind of specialized experience were hard to find. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Penny sits on Mom’s lap and keeps pushing computer keys, messing up the display, which is getting on my nerves. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When she faltered, Daft Donald would take up the narrative on his computer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he been just a little bit older and had he had to face the drudgery of programming with computer cards, he says, he would have studied science. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The night before the last day of camp, I sat on my bed with the family computer balanced in my lap. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She gestured toward the computer, and they all leaned forward to get a better look. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The young man looks up when we come in, taps something on his computer screen, and stands. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I hear words forming as if I’m sitting at the computer already. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes have not left the computer screen this whole time, but I know she’s paying attention to everything I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She began typing, squinting at the computer screen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And I was playing The 11th Hour on my computer that evening when a taxi stopped outside the house. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I manage to sneak a few minutes at the computer to read Rhiannon’s message and send her one of my own, saying we’ll have to see how the day plays out. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The clacking of computer keys continues, neither machine nor operator moved by tears. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I mean, all I even knew about Dante Paul was that his family was from Haiti and he was supposed to be some sort of computer genius. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would be in the best position to take advantage of it? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It’s a horseshoe-shaped room with about a dozen beds and a cadre of nurses, who constantly bustle around, reading the computer printouts that churn out from the feet of our beds recording our vital signs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me once that “youth is wasted on the young” and said it was a shame that other people his age had a fear of computers. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

No matter which program he ran it through, the computer came up blank. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

C-Cubed eventually went bankrupt, so Gates and his friends began hanging around the computer center at the University of Washington. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The library is empty besides two kids sitting at the computers. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The police had seized my computers, but fortunately not until two hours after the kill call, according to our building super, who had to let them into the apartment. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Miguel waved for his friends to follow him to the rows of computer terminals. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In those days before computers, that meant using radio. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the two computer workstations on the other side of the classroom. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I like it,” the one at the computer said. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Celeste spun away from the mirror and squinted at the computer. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jesse claimed that if his computer were ever stolen or unplugged, he would read obsessively; Eric didn’t know what he would do, and hoped never to find out. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Dijksterhuis is suggesting the opposite: that maybe that big computer in our brain that handles our unconscious is at its best when it has to juggle many competing variables. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She went in feetfirst and was standing on Becca’s computer desk, half in the house and half out of it, when I asked her, “Can’t I just be lookout?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and called out to her, "Can I use the computer?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It takes me 2 more visits to the Pet Hut to finish entering all the data into the computer and collecting it for my own purposes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors wanted it so that an X-ray taken in Bangor could be read in a hospital in Bangalore, without the doctor in Maine ever having to wonder what computers that Indian hospital had. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even though he's sort of handsome now, he's still a numbers geek who wants to be a computer scientist. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While Nicholas played a hand-me-down Nintendo on a television with a busted tube, Christopher plays 3-D chess on the family’s Dell computer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Skeezie says, and before you know it we’re all whooping it up and running to the computer to add these names to all the others. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the money I made selling CDs and videogames, I was able to save up and add new components and more memory to my own computer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And schools across the country were banning trench coats, backpacks, black clothing, white makeup, Goth music, computer gaming shirts and symbols. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now leave that computer off, take out your books, and do your homework.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Caleb said she wouldn’t keep the information on a public computer. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The three heroes hopped into their individually labeled tubes and slid down to their briefing stations, where they were surrounded by blinking computers and glowing video screens. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Chess thought time would drag until they could finally meet and pull out the computers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All she could picture was their stuff, abandoned at the library table while they’d been at the computer bank discovering Mr. Griswold’s next clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And the joy and obsession he’s had with his computer. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Glancing at his computer screen, he noted forty-seven unread e-mails urgently demanding his attention. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t particularly notice things, not if they aren’t in a hockey rink or a computer game; he’s not stupid, he’s just not observant. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was celebrated at the time for these marvelous concepts—and then much later as one of the computer’s great pioneers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the office, nice ladies type on computers, asking if I want water. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Both. I mean, I’m starting at MIT in the fall for computer science and engineering, so this is a good thing to have on my CV.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And do you think this new library will have equally new computers?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got an experiment running. I have to check the computer periodically.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she brings out the computer he acts so surprised and happy, maybe he really is surprised. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were concerned about how well our spacecraft and computers would work. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means that I have a chance to get a computer if I keep my grades up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The office itself, a large room with four desks, on each of which sat a computer, looked bare and untested, as though it was everybody’s first day at work. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This room looks like an office only without computers, and it appears to have been abandoned in a great hurry, like its employees were beamed up to space or something. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d just looked away to grab my backpack when I heard, once again, the soft double ding that indicated I’d received a new message, and I turned down the volume on my computer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

"It'll have to wait a few days. We're going to try and link Pathfinder to the rover computer—" "A few days!?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you can’t plug it into a computer anymore. But you can insert the memory stick into the machines at the store and print them that way.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Roz’s computer brain quickly retrieved any information it had on opossums. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Ever since Ms. Gruwell announced that the Freedom Writers with the top thirty-five grade point averages would win computers when we graduated, I started getting As and Bs on my report card. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced around the room and noticed the thin line of smoke now pouring out of my computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Large, high-resolution monitors and quality speakers were turning their computers into sophisticated cultural centers in much the same way TV sets had morphed into family entertainment units. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of microseconds the image would appear on the screen of Mrs. Jones’ computer in London along with the time and location from which it had been sent. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was also working on setting up a website, with the help of the kid who fixed computers at Wilson’s Furniture Store. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Use the“autogenerate” feature on our website to have a computer encrypt your clue, or get ideas from the Puzzlepedia page and create your own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’d discovered it four years earlier, while searching for discarded computer parts. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

TV, computers, and video games competed for kids’ time, and in some neighborhoods staying indoors felt like a safer choice than going outside to play, as Craig and I had done when we were kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When I came out he was sitting inside one of the bays, examining its laptop computer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even has a computer on a desk in the corner. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Bookcases line the walls on either side of me, but they seem to be decorative more than anything, because computers occupy the tables in the center of the room, and no one is reading. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Down one long hallway I see rows of lab tables and computers, and it reminds me of Erudite headquarters, but it’s brighter here, and nothing seems to be hidden. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Luke pointed to the ones on the shelves above the computer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a needle in a haystack,” Mark said at one point as they stared at the computer, but Joaquin didn’t mind. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The computer keeps humming and the two of us sit there, silently thinking. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, I put the letter down and looked at my computer screen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They send infrared e-mails to each other on little palm computers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack points to three large computer screens on the desk, attached by a wad of tangled cords. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

That same year, her mother was given permission to do her programming job remotely, which meant anywhere she had a computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"A computer is simple once you get the hang of it, but you have to get the basics down," he said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But talented computers, particularly those with years of experience, were valuable resources. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my desk is the little bamboo plant in the blue- swirly dish Melissa gave me for my last birthday, and my computer with the longest, hardest-to-spell password I could think of: “anthropological.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simulators came with instructors, who could direct the computer to imitate one problem after another until we got the hang of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They always say immigrants should go into scientific fields, like medicine or computers,” I finally reply. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He’s made a kind of cave for himself, complete with guitar and computer and notebooks of staff paper, along with pens and stacks of Post-its. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I swiveled back around in my chair, looked at my computer screen, and minimized my history paper. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“My dream job? Working for the National Enquirer, doing computer graphics, you know, putting somebody else’s body with Hillary Clinton’s head.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, in turn, meant that programmers didn’t have to physically hand their stacks of computer cards to the operator anymore. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The prime minister is going to press the button that will bring all the computers on-line...the whole lot of them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We need your permission to use the computers there for a... a project.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Never heard of him,” the woman replied, going back to her computer. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the mid-1950s, a woman named Helen Willey led a successful charge to have every female computer with a math degree upgraded to mathematician, a title that automatically applied to men with the same credential. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“How does that work? I mean, are the nightmares produced by the computer or by your brain?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They got super dirty, so I, uh ...” I trailed off, making a point of noticing the document on his computer screen. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“No. My parents cut me off. I didn't have my phone, my iPad, my computer, my debit card. I didn’t have anything but television.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luke left Jen’s that day with a pile of books and computer printouts clutched to his chest. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Clark shrugged and clicked her computer some more, seeming bored. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Crying from happiness, right there, sitting in front of the computer, reading Alicia's e-mail. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before such things are done, one hopes that the computers will contain every least bit of relevant information about the way of the world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain to her about binary numbers, and how they were the system that computers used and how Dad said they were far superior to other numeric systems. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sun Ra preaching about the “alter destiny” and “the living myth” and powering his spaceship with music—all over strange noises that sound more like a computer malfunctioning than jazz. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Practically the same letter exists in a file on her computer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He powered on his computer and brought up iTunes to play some Prince while he went through his closet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She runs her own computer consulting business out of an old house on Schuyler Place that she inherited from her two great-uncles. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at a computer and look up everything I can find about Alzheimer’s disease. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I go into the studio and climb the stairs to Oscar’s room, where there’s a computer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Bill Gates was addicted to his computer as a child. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“It was awful. There wasn’t even a computer.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

So I sit in his seat and watch his computer screen as he activates a YouTube video. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

If Kyle needed a computer for homework during this last week of school, he could use his mom’s, the one in the kitchen. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Soon she would be driving in the rain to take the nursing boards on computer No. 12. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Matt rejected several rooms because he’d seen people in them, but at a bend in the passage he remembered a warehouse with computers and other equipment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me stop you now. This isn’t one of your computer games. There is no buried treasure.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We also went to the computer lab, where we learned about 3D printing, including that the queen’s costume in the movie Black Panther was mostly 3D printed! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“He programs computers that might, one day soon.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The day after Brian leaves for boarding school, I sneak into Jude’s room while she’s in the shower and see a chat on the computer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Our computer can carry us in time as well as in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there, we went to the police station, where I was told to step into a small, stark room that had nothing but a table, a couple chairs, and a computer in it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A bulky computer—one that looked like it was born in the late 1990s—randomly blinked on a rack. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

At his daughter Megan’s swim meets, he ran the computer that kept time and the score. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"I didn't say that. He's in the computer. We just can't access his records. It's like they've fallen through a hole in cyberspace." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But Reardan has one of the best small schools in the state, with a computer room and huge chemistry lab and a drama club and two basketball gyms. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whether we find her spare computer or not. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This number plays the role of “practical infinity” for computer problems which are solvable but only theoretically. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at a virtual desk, in front of a virtual computer, wearing a virtual phone headset. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’d had grand visions of sabotaging the Whisperer, destroying its computers all by herself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

On each table there was a different classic home computer or videogame system, accompanied by tiered racks that appeared to hold a complete collection of its peripherals, controllers, software, and games. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There is not going to be a computer here. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

While I wasn’t a computer geek, I too loved the Net and the Web, and also could talk about both forever. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

New computers were more efficient than people in sending and receiving code. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Sunday supper, the girls get an hour of television in the same room as the computer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She squinted at the computer screen in front of Finn, her eyes scanning the words at the bottom of the news report. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’ll lie and insist that there’s been a computer error and that I am supposed to be in the Distinguished Scholars class, even though I suck in English and have a learning disability. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The synthesized voice of the cab’s computer told me the drive would take an estimated thirty-two minutes with the current traffic conditions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I log on to my computer and go to the Pet Hut website. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Max hunches forward and tiptoes over to the half-circle work station where all the computers and chairs are clustered. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And maybe Dante’s when he was being a computer genius. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Zemaye said nothing; she had turned to her computer, as though indifferent to this small victory and Ifemelu felt unaccountably disappointed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The last time I helped you ‘mobilize the student body,’ I got my face plastered on everyone’s computer screens.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The entire far wall is covered with a computer screen. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

These were the kids I’d see in the cafeteria, yard time, PE, music, library, computer class. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed the names to Arnold, who opened his computer and started tapping away. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the folded Web address out of my pocket and head into my mom’s office, where we keep the computer. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I just duck into the library, staking claim to a computer. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“And she gave me some articles, printouts from the computer.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The net result, added Mundie, was that “the industry created a global platform for a global workforce of people and computers.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Jesse and a few friends started playing computer games in the Middleton High library at lunchtime, nervous parents forced the librarian to make them stop. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite how careful I am, my shoe clips the edge of the fat computer monitor. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend...he needs to use your computer to try to contact his parents.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I found Margaret in her office, staring at her computer screen. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I turn the volume up real loud and I push a button: “Hi, everybody. I have a new computer.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, geeks repeatedly cite the nearly universal need for people who can cope with computers and software as the primary reason for their elevation to a new techno-elite. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the morning at the computer, flipping back and forth between my religion and English papers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was probably something about computer history that Finn didn’t know about, but he wasn’t going to ask the others. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"But the accelerometers caught it and calculated the new center of mass. The guidance computer is adjusting the engines' thrusts to counteract. We're still good." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias crouches next to the computer and pulls the side of the case off. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But a computer mouse multiplies as either mice or mouses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With English out of the way, he was taking government and the electives of sociology, computer math, photography, and food science. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, black people barely had access to computers, let’s start there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, the point is, even though Ashley deleted her history, I was able to see what she’d done on the computer.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t he find himself surrounded by those kids whose parents had bought them their computers? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn off the computer, saying good-bye to my e-friends, and go back to the actual human in my living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each station transmitted data on the craft’s position and speed back to Mercury control, which bounced the data to the Goddard computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Abbey grabbed a bagel out of the toaster and ran off to play on the computer. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rose is showing off a brand-new laptop computer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Soojin has a crowd of people around her and is an animated Ada Lovelace, although the way she is waving her arms around makes her look like she’s dancing more than programming a computer. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She dug around in the bag, pulled out papers, printouts from the computer, articles, a library book with the name Sacks on the cover. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He lived with a hole in his throat, spoke through a computer synthesizer, typed words by batting his eyes as a sensor picked up the movement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Paul Van Riper did not behave as the computers predicted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I sat down and located the power switch for the computer and the TV. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As I did, the towering computers around me began to emit a cacophony of sound, like a grand orchestra tuning up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We do, however, know all about how computer memories work. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are the bad ones, my friend ?” After a moment of quiet he pulls the bottom drawer and retrieves a folded green and white computer printout markered in Eduardo’s hand. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the computers reached the end of the line, where they were packed into red-and-white Sayle Enterprises boxes, the compartments were completely invisible. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was standing by a computer printer that was spewing out graphs and charts, the results of another DNA comparison. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If a number is really, really big, it can take a computer years to work out whether it is a prime number. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Emboldened by this good news, I also asked if I could use the one computer that the school possessed to write Caitlin the request that day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There it was, in a computer paper box. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I guess he must have seen me sitting at the computer. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Like if she burns her hand on a pan, or if her computer freezes when she's trying to print something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps highlighting a book title, but she can't get the computer to go to the next screen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Emma and I will start, and you and Natalie can look at Mom’s work computer. See if there’s anything strange on there.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tucker snorted and pulled me to a section of the library in the back, where several aging computers sat in a line against the wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then I found my computer carton and set it up on the desk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm a physics guy, not a computer guy." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If something goes wrong with the rover's computer en route, I'll have a spare. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I want to know about his talking devices, the supercool computers that help him talk and do really hard math problems, like finding black holes in space. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But maybe he was too tired to operate a computer properly. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The computer down there didn’t even connect to the internet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A glance at her computer showed foreign networks doing the same. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was already in bed—after dinner had become my bedtime for the moment- propped up with a gajillion pillows and also Bluie, with my computer on my lap. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Most of our group presses their faces against the glass to gaze into the huge space full of men and women sitting at long tables topped with computers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And I’m going to have a talk with the organizers about conflicts of interest. If your parents donated the new computer science wing?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One stack of papers was a copyedited manuscript—basically a printout from a computer file that had been marked up in colored pencil with a bunch of edit marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The customer I was trying to help was practically leaning his head on my shoulder, trying to see the computer screen. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Want me to show you some more about computers?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had never done anything with computers in high school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Stupid mistake —it’s usually the last thing 1 do before I shut down my computer, no matter what I’ve been looking at. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clear the history, turn off the computer, and tell her I just need to put on my shoes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Charles dashed over to the nearest library table and swiped his fingers across the glass face of its built-in computer pad. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I know. Just give it time. In a few weeks, you’ll think it’s weird that you won’t have to turn on a computer screen to see me.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve got to get back to the lab and test this against the results from the computer. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The computer. I’m too old to take up such fads.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She turned to her computer, shook her mouse to wake it up, and then clicked an image on her desktop. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Virginia Tucker, who had ascended to the position of head computer, ran Langley’s entire computing operation of over two hundred women, and supervised Margery Hannah and the other section heads. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“What am I supposed to do while you sit at your computer?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes and examine my computer. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Even modest programs could require a tray of hundreds of the cards, which needed to be fed into the computer in the correct order. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Engineering, science, finance, computer development, teaching, banking. These all require mathematics.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But this was not on a computer screen. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, good. Thank you for your commiserations, my friend, and now you’d best be off, back to your confounded computer. I’m sorry to work you so.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

None of the prisoners from New Orleans were in their computer system. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This one cop came over to where I was with my computer and pulled this massive assault rifle on me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“With that connector cord, you can also save longer things you want to write—like stories or poems—on the computer!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In 1960, Langley had only just completed Building 1268, a West Side facility housing one of the most advanced computer complexes on the East Coast. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Martina would call for help, and the Recruiters guarding the computer room would come running. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward, tapped a note into her computer. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The computer reported no change in pressure over that time, other than a minor fluctuation based on temperature. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both laboratories siphoned off Langley employees, including computers, for their startup staffs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mary Jackson was connected to so many computers in so many different ways that the only surprising thing about her arrival at Langley was that it had taken so long. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Kids raised in interactive environments—with zappers, Nintendos, computers, sophisticated games—often struggle in environments where adults stand for hours droning at them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to my computer and created a playlist with every single song. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When I checked my avatar’s reflection in a computer monitor, I saw that I no longer looked like Matthew Broderick. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could run down the right hallway, but if the guards came from the left hallway, that’s where the computers are. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if she meant the best of the computers or the best of the bookkeepers, and I didn't ask because I was afraid I already knew. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So there’s absolutely no way we can get into that computer room?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m feeling really quite jolly, thanks to the wine and the tedious contents of Tom’s computer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One defined the acceleration of computer processing power, which allowed not just speed, but so many capabilities, including, at its core, interactivity; the other captured the rapid expansion of the communications network and its value. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ms. Clark looks through my files on her computer for Jay’s work number. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She then turned off the computer and headed out in search of Mrs. Kennedy to tell her she was finished. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some AT hikers, I had read, now carry laptop computers and modems, so that they can file daily reports to their family and friends. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I find her at her computer where she’s supposed to be writing a book but instead is staring up at the ceiling like it’s full of stars. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Audrey had to share a desktop computer with her horrible brother. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The only thing they would actually pack carefully into boxes, at the last possible moment, were their two computers, along with monitors, hard drives, scanners, subwoofers, and printers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tacked on the corkboard walls and occupying several computer screens are other designs of some sort. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If you talk to veterans of Silicon Valley, they’ll tell you that the most important date in the history of the personal computer revolution was January 1975. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Josiah’s gone to the computer lab because he gobbled his food down by the time we got back to St. Francis. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He is the kid who wins perfect attendance records, who helps the staff chase down bugs in the computer files of report cards. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to touch the glowing lights and shiny buttons, but Mrs. Shannon steps in and distracts her with a new computer game she’s loaded on the classroom machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

So I’d disabled my alarm’s snooze feature and instructed the computer to blast “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He figured out that when you made a withdrawal from the drive-through window at the bank, it took a few minutes for the transaction to register in the computer. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was called a TI-99, made by Texas Instruments, and it was one of the first home computers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I do not worry much about the computers that are wired to help me find a friend among fifty thousand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they’d stuffed Mom’s phone and charger and all the computers into the suitcases, and Chess would have had to take his seat belt off and climb over the back row to reach them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But more importantly, I needed my computer, so that I could scour the Internet to try to catch up on my own life. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Whoa,” I say, opening my computer and pulling up our blog site. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Grace had a photo of the treasure puzzle up on Jake’s computer monitor. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

So Mom went on a business trip and she didn’t take her business computer with her? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With Reggie’s permission, Dr. Watson had sent them to Dr. Gazzaley, and he walked me through the images on his computer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They are oddly shaped, each a six-inch square block, much larger than a home computer, and each is connected to its own battery dock. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Sir, might we assume that the prize for winning your brand-new game will be even better than a laptop computer?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room is a lab table with a computer and a microscope, and a young man with slicked-back blond hair. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She writes back immediately—she must be waiting by her computer—and asks me if I can meet her after school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t envision her insides as a vast computer code, all Is and Os, an infinity of sequences, any one of which might contain a bug. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She props her chin in her hand and nods at the computer screen. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We don’t even know where and when she’s putting it in the mail. But if she typed it on her computer...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The image is read by the Voyager computers, radioed back across the immense intervening distance of half a billion kilometers to a radio telescope, a ground station on the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my computer with me, and after I ask three times, the woman at the front desk gives me the wireless password. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That was another bad thing about not having a computer or Wi-Fi—not only was she cut off from her video games and email, she also didn’t have any way to listen to new music. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mac might have been the first computer with a real sense of design, but the Stormbreaker had far surpassed it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Put that way, Bacon’s cipher becomes an example of binary code, the language of computers… The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to suspect Raven must be an adult who worked at a computer all day, because she always seemed to be there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In a way, it made perfect sense that Jesse had a computer but not a car: Young Americans seem much more in love with their computers these days. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Swipe your fingers across the nearest desktop computer panel. The dice tumbler app is up and running!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The really amazing thing is, they are the most popular people in the school, while everybody thinks I'm a freak for being online and playing computer games. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One computer for schoolwork and regular stuff, one for video games, and the third—I built this one.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The computers over there,” Teresa said, grabbing his attention. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Just so you know, these computers are highly classified. If you put in the wrong password even once, it’ll alert security. So...no pressure.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He clicks some stuff on one of the computers and a bass heavy up-tempo beat blasts through the speakers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I took the computer from his lap and put it on the dresser. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I think I liked it better when I only saw him on a computer screen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I like some parts of school, like PE and computer class. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“One computer for schoolwork and regular stuff, one for video games, and the third—I built this one.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad watched the live stream on the computer, and I listened from outside the office door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A handful of cops talk on phones, type on computers, or stand around. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The fireman’s internal computer effortlessly and instantly found a pattern in the chaos. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I emailed the picture to myself so I could open it on Trevor’s computer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The astronauts, by background and by nature, resisted the computers and their ghostly intellects. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I opened the plastic case and slipped the disc into my computer. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I logged on to a computer, pounded the keyboard for a few moments, and swiveled the screen toward him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to suspect Raven must be an adult who worked at a computer all day, because she always seemed to be there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While he was updating the day’s events on the computer, the telephone rang. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helped that some students hacked into the school’s computer system. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It took another ten to click around and get the internet to work, because sometimes my computer was just, I don’t know, obstinate. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d convinced my mother, as frugal as she was, that I needed a computer for school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I have only played against a computer, and not often, because chess is one of those things that can become obsessive. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The transmitter accepts coded electronic pulse information—words or data—coming from copper wire out of your home telephone or office computer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear about the computer cheating,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Annie sits behind the counter staring at the computer, probably at cute videos of hedgehogs snoring. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We had them all facing the same way so that their shadows on the wall looked like a computer rendering of an architectural cross section. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He handed the computer to Annabeth, who stared at it like it was solid gold. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s no computer, and even if it weren’t a three-hour drive away, there wouldn’t be any way for me to get to Rhiannon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mamou and Babou had always existed in their own cuboid universe: the two of them, and the walls of the computer room around them. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Connor takes me to a coffee shop bustling with hipsters and their expensive computers and gadgets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And that is why people think that computers don’t have minds, and why people think that their brains are special, and different from computers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven sits on the side of the lower bunk, an open computer tower at his feet. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I didn't like the idea of talking to someone through a computer instead of face-to-face. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever looked at the inside of a computer? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

From that moment forward, Gates lived in the computer room. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

LeeAnn said, “Well, the school owns The Landry News, right? I mean, like... the school buys the paper and the computer and all, so it’s the school’s, right?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, binary code? Doesn’t that seem kind of obvious? Especially coming from a computer geek like you.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Spoon was about to hit the computer key when Ms. Owens cleared her throat in dramatic fashion. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When she had hung up, he went at once to the computer the General had installed in the office. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at the computer, I felt my vision narrow, no longer seeing all the faces in the photos, just a blur of glowing color. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Checking the clock on his computer, he shook his head. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around then and powered up the computer to see if there was any e-mail for me and saw that I had two messages. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I should see if there are new adoption forms that need to be entered into the computer.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All she could picture was their stuff, abandoned at the library table while they’d been at the computer bank discovering Mr. Griswold’s next clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It skirted around the edges of a shop that sold laptops and computer wiring. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But while I’m working on the computer, he prefers to sleep on my lap, which is gross and adorable. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The computer is all ready to go. Your ID code is ‘Mitch.’ Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my computer printouts and hurry after her. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

James twisted his computer chair back and forth as he thought. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I move over to her computer desk and log on to the Internet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Luck was on their side, because that friend was working his shift and he let Barry and Clyde into the guests-only computer room. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The transmitter and the liquid that induces the simulation. The transmitter communicates information to the brain from the computer, and vice versa, and the liquid alters the brain to put it in a simulation state.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “Oskar’s CPU is a neural-net processor. A learning computer. The more contact he has with humans, the more he learns.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, correspondents filed their reports by voice or fax via satellite phone, and those reports were typed into computers for dissemination on the Web by editors in New York, Boston, and Seattle. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he admitted defeat and rushed down to the computer room. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The librarian stands near the computer table, watching them. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the time a CD writer cost as much as the rest of the computer, nearly 2,000 rand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was like someone who persists in using an old-fashioned manual typewriter even though a modern word-processing computer is available. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because once people could author their own content in digital form—in the form of computer bits and bytes—they could manipulate it on computer screens in ways that made individuals so much more productive. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

For years, every hacker and electronics whiz had dreamt of the day when a computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I turned to my computer, and there was an email inviting me to speak to students in a poor school district about remaining hopeful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The computers were being slowly carried in a long, continuous line along a conveyor belt, past the various scientists and technicians. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I prop the computer on my desk chair and pull my blankets up and watch it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like we’re in the computer lab now and hit a snag fifteen minutes ago, and Rae’s been hunched over that notebook ever since. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I stop worrying about my computer being stolen or cooked, I sleep through the night, the sick little plucking habit loses its grip. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to head over to a friend’s house to use their computer to Skype with your dad,” my mom says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Their letters were so compelling that I took them to the school’s computer lab to type. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

James dropped into a chair and shook the mouse to wake up the computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lydia had left all of her music on her computer when she gave it to him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As powerful as ACD’s computer was, however, the maestros of Project Mercury would require even more electronic horsepower for what was to come next. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You want to be an engineer, a computer programmer, a secretary, a doctor, a lawyer, a caterer, a gardener, a construction worker, or whatever. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I flipped on the computer and scanned the Google Earth view of Bhutan and the nearby countries of India and Nepal. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She knew it wouldn’t be another puzzle-loving computer nut with a cowlick sidekick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Despite his obvious intelligence, he did poorly in school, because most of his attention was focused on computers, comic books, sci-fi and fantasy novels, movies, and above all else, videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The computer is large and oddly shaped, not like any I have ever seen, a six-inch square with two ports, both unused. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The computer we have now is sleek and bright, its keys slender and whispery. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It infiltrated Xerox machines and worked its way inside personal computers and inside the cushions of chairs and fingered down into the floor drains until it touched pools of lingering bleach in the water traps. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really. Okay, I’ll make you a deal. Answer one easy question for me, and you can have ten more minutes on the computer. Fair?” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Zack is on the computer, Beth is showing Mom some new yoga moves, and I’m throwing every item of clothing I have onto the floor in search of the perfect outfit for tomorrow night. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

One stack of papers was a copyedited manuscript—basically a printout from a computer file that had been marked up in colored pencil with a bunch of edit marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If your music is already stored as a computer file, there are programs that will transpose it for you and display and print it in the new key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Factories making cameras, computers, watches, umbrellas, and T-shirts stand cheek by jowl with densely packed blocks of apartment buildings and fields of banana and mango trees, sugarcane, papaya, and pineapple destined for the export market. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There’s a podium up there waiting for me and also a computer to provide the Zoom connection. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Finn stared at his own blank computer screen, the picture of the unknown computer programmers seeming to taunt him about everything he didn’t know, everything he was useless at helping the other kids find out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Luck was on their side, because that friend was working his shift and he let Barry and Clyde into the guests-only computer room. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her desktop computer had crashed right before they moved, but Candice’s mom wanted to wait until the fall before buying her a new one. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This intersection of computers, telecommunications, and the military would yield a change arguably as significant and characteristic of modern life as anything in medicine and the industrialization of food. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Just a reminder" the counselor said more quietly, then turned to the computer screen to get back to the matter of my unexcused absences. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then there was a huge computer, which figured out things like how far away from the earth or the lunar module we might be at any time in our imaginary flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Aurora’s viruses found its way into the admissions department computer at the University of Florida, wiping out half their records. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The computers blinked to life and allowed us to access the newspaper archives from the desktop. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

If we can find Dauntless soldiers, we can find the computers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He put in a Fela CD and then started to write the e-mail on his computer; his BlackBerry keyboard would cramp his fingers and his mind. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mother’s computer was on, the screen saver casting a green light over the living room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Herd is already striding over to his computer. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

You will instruct your computer by voice to make an appointment. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

JB nods, his fingers tapping away on the computer, chatting probably with Miss Sweet Tea. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Me and all the other boys on her computer screen have names. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

My plan, insofar as I had one, was to go to university to be a computer programmer, but we couldn’t afford the tuition. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She’d always thought she was better than him, just because she was a Baron, showing off with her soda and her potato chips and her fancy computer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to see the principal alone, and he showed me the computer printouts from Pretoria: yes, I had obtained a third-class pass because I had failed my mother tongue! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the maps above my computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I followed Elle’s lead to a computer on the corner on the clean side. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

On the table was a Stormbreaker computer and, next to it, a mouse. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rumors began to circulate that Gregarious Games was developing some sort of new computer gaming hardware and that this secret project was rapidly exhausting the company’s considerable financial resources. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I am dying to get on one of the school computers, but I have to get rid of Sam first. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ve asked around, but there’s only one computer in this entire godforsaken place, and only one person gets to use it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She forgets sometimes that we mere mortals don’t automatically assess a situation and then arrive at a conclusion at the speed of computers. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She bought a fast computer that was delivered to her door, bought some good software, and learned how to use it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a huge galactic computer, a repository, more or less up-to-date, of information on the nature and activities of all the civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy, a great library of life in the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at school, when the computers came in as stock standard, I still used the drawers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wished there was a computer in the office I could use, but there wasn’t. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The letters tell of his company’s elaborate computer model, his financial expertise and inside contacts. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie takes a slide from a tray near the computer and, using a dropper, puts two drops of the orange liquid in its center, then seals the liquid in place with a second slide. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I looked from my mom, staring at her computer screen, back to Calista. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The computer sounds like a diesel truck starting up, but I know it's not really that loud. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she gets into her work like this, it’s like trying to have a meaningful conversation with a high-speed computer that loves Chipotle and makes fun of what you’re wearing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Well, that, and also because it was completely awesome, with an old-school teenage computer hacker as the protagonist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Malone sat down in a chair by the computer, staring. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson knew that the rest of her career would be defined by her ability to use the electronic computers to transcend human limits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’m in my room now, at the computer, listening to the sound of Erik kicking a football into a net in the backyard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one such occasion, two years after Mary joined West Computing, Dorothy Vaughan sent Mary to the East Side, staffing her on a project alongside several white computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Except for their brief meeting with the children, Number Two had not left her computer, nor Mr. Benedict his desk, for hours. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Elle turned her attention back to the computer and hovered the mouse over files with the name Wheeler in them. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Mom spent the whole day on her computer, applying for jobs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

However, we didn’t need the earth, because our own computer told us which way to point and how long to fire the engine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They thought that we were jacking our own computers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t have class for the next week so that we could go to the library or the computer lab to work on our projects. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside her computer brain, our robot’s Survival Instincts were blaring. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Safer’s mom calls to us from her office, where she’s looking at a picture on a computer screen. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dad’s on his computer, and Mom is nervously rearranging our yarmulke collection. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Since the Internet was disconnected, Mama and Papa had gone to the library to use the computer to look up apartment listings. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At least three days a week, Monday would hang with me, and we would use the computers to watch music videos on YouTube. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ortega and Daft Donald were sitting at a table with cups of coffee and two laptop computers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got a bunch of signatures for the petitions,” Jessie said as she fiddled with an old computer hard drive she had found on the curb. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He’s freaking out in front of his computer. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The computer handed down from his brother Curtis was sitting on the desk that used to belong to his other brother, Mike. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I saw him brighten as he leaned over the computer to fiddle with his music playlist. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah lingered in the doorway, watching the computer over our shoulders. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Because I’m not hooked up to the computer as I wait, I can’t watch the simulation, only the person’s reaction to it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I then had the privilege of being taken to a small room with a few computers that engineers used to map out the location of the rover, using information that the rover sent back! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But while Beetee thinks he might be able to override certain computer systems, and there’s some discussion of putting the handful of internal spies to use, no one has any really innovative thoughts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Looking around the circle, from one system to the next, I saw that the computers seemed to be arranged roughly by year of origin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fulton was sitting at his computer with a pair of headphones on. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was a shocked blankness on the computer screen after Jen’s entry. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were limited ways for a white computer to break into management at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The eighth graders had picked this computer genius, Luke Simard, and got him elected president just so they could make fun of him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Mom made me go to my room, where she took away my computer. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

You can transfer the files to a computer and upload and stuff like that. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Number six was that the university happened to have free computer time between three and six in the morning. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Even in those brief seconds, Alex could feel the speed and the power of the computer. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was so good, in fact, that it became—and remains—the operating system on which literally millions of computers around the world run. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At times, I wish I were back home, in that simple schoolroom with no computers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He wheeled himself toward a bookcase that opened to reveal a small room filled with computer equipment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To give you some indication of how unwell they went, I'm reaching up to the computer to type this. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had an unlimited budget on most things, but that didn’t include getting her own computer. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Carmen signed off, but I continued to stare at my computer screen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Opaque, silver test tubes were being fed along a narrow cage, moving forward as if to greet the computers: one tube for each computer. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Why would a teacher, someone who was supposed to be my colleague, access my computer file and print a private letter? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like to drink myself—not that I could, with my meds—but some of the computer shows required you to be twenty-one to get in. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hold out much hope for Dad and me continuing our nightly Star Trek tradition, but I went in search of Babou’s computer anyway. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, my father's team won, so computers it is. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“New library opens Friday, just in time for summer vacation,” Kyle’s mom mumbled, reading her computer screen. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Singleton was back at the computer, when something stood out. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Long after Thomas has escorted me back to my apartment and left, and long after midnight has passed, I sit awake at my computer and study Metias’s crime report. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes that happened, like when she was helping Leo with the ship’s machinery or drawing architectural plans on the computer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once a program was ready, you walked over to whatever mainframe computer you had access to and gave the stack of cards to an operator. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There was soft music playing and a couple of people sitting at tables writing in notebooks and on laptop computers. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Holly could hear computer keys being punched furiously. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Yassen had brought the test tubes that were even now being inserted into the computers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

This is represented by the curve on the smaller of Dr. Gazzaley’s computer monitors. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the end of the year the computer would be used to help compile a rather remarkable eighty-two-page document containing a detailed examination of each of the team’s 747 defensive plays. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther to the side, he saw televisions, computers, and other electronic devices. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I watch the YouTube videos on our computer over and over, and slowly it sinks in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They don’t use computers or watch cable TV, and they never curse and have this thing about them that makes you want to be polite. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been no word from Babbage the day before, so when she got home she went straight for the computer to check her messages again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I found Mom’s computer! And Finn and Natalie found the one she lets us use. So she must have taken the one from down there with her!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Your first technical support shift begins in seven hours,” the HR computer droned softly in my ear. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were able to talk to Billy by means of a computer and a sort of electric organ which made every Earthling speech sound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serenity crawls in next, and immediately points at the computer. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The robot’s computer brain knew that if water got inside her body, it could do serious damage. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cars were surrounded by piles of junk and boxes—furniture, rugs, computers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was a mystery why her computer brain knew certain things but not others. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Holding her breath, she clicked the red arrow and watched the computer do its thinking spiral, then slowly load a new page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely not. You are grounded until further notice. No phone and no computer.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For most of high school, I had to go over to Izzy's house to type my papers, because we couldn't afford a computer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even more remarkable was the kind of computer Lakeside bought. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The English department had gotten its first computer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is Raven. My virtual assistant. She’s a computer program designed to assist players in the scavenger hunt.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He quickly obliged and clicked around on my computer. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The university’s enormous mainframe computers stood in the middle of a vast white room, looking, as one faculty member remembers, “like one of the last scenes in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The image that appeared on my computer screen hit me like an unexpected blow to the body. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Good. I hung out on the computers after you left.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dad snapped the computer shut and sat next to me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I went to the library and sat at a computer terminal, looking for stories about Megan. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one of the computers on the desk, a bunch of data begins to pour in. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Besides, the car fire had inaugurated one of the most important discussions of both their lives, a talk that went on for hours, interspersed between ferocious Quake II battles on their linked computers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any school with a football team ought to have a computer gaming, web design, or programming team as well. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent eight hours a day on a computer, feeding my stories back to the States. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, "I know you can use the computer, Noah, but you may not." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was searching for more ingredients and cupcake inspiration pictures on my computer when Grandma knocked on my bedroom door and peeked inside. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wave at the computer, then at the wall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They began selling the game on the software rack at their local computer store. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Old ladies, hustlers, and everybody in between pay him to fix their computers and phones. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was glowing, like one of the touch-screen computers in the desks upstairs. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, turning back to her computer. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She says the computer is strictly for homework and she doesn’t want me distracted, even though I explain I don’t have any homework over the holidays. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He got up, motioned me out of the chair, and then swiveled to the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And he was hoping to go to community college part-time to learn computer programming. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The computer’s frantic beeping woke me from a dreamless sleep, tugging at me until my eyes drifted open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A police detective had discovered that Theodore Johnson’s airline ticket was purchased over the Internet and that the same computer had also purchased a ticket to Costa Rica for someone named Denise Linaria. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

If Captain Short was being held in a building, the computer would be able to give him 3-D blueprints instantaneously. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I sit at my computer and type in the words. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some had reached out to me on Facebook, gaining access to computers wherever they could, like at internet cafes in nearby towns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I'd played enough computer games in my time to recognize a quest when I saw one. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The one wearing green is using a computer, and the one in blue is talking on the phone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But for you, there’s a tiny transmitter in the serum that sends data to the computer.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The last communication with those entities she called shadow particles, and Lyra called Dust, had been on the screen of her computer, and at their instruction she had destroyed that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Joseph Powdermilk, Jr. I have the specs in the computer and can run you a printout if you like.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Luke kept Jen from talking about the rally the rest of that day, and they didn’t even go near the computer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no opportunity to change the computer program, even as the extent of the great 1971 dust storm became clear. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He typically works late into his evenings, and on most of his weekends, drawing designs on the computer, drafting plans, writing specifications, building Styrofoam and cardboard models to scale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The song finished, and I wanted to shut down my computer and run away. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“If it thinks it sees an eye, it’ll read your iris and check with the big computer.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It looks like I'll have as much computer and electronic equipment as I will have climbing gear. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I, David Lightman, a teenage computer geek from suburban Seattle, had single-handedly prevented the end of human civilization. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Back home I go into the den, turn on the computer, and open up Instant Messenger. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I work in the absolutely worst cubicle with the most ancient computer, but that doesn’t mean I’m not qualified to at least assist you with this interview,” Delilah says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even way back in the 1940s, those codebreakers had had early versions of computers to help them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My knees are making my computer screen bounce; my feet can’t sit still. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But even the giant computer in our unconscious needs a moment to do its work. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been volunteering here for 6 months. People fill out an adoption form. If I have time, I put it in the computer. But all the paperwork is filed by date in here.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d only come up now to get a book since his grandma had forbidden handheld computer games from her house. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She ran down the hall to the front room, planning to do a search for The Maltese Falcon on Book Scavenger, but stopped short when she saw Matthew on the family computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After my last class, I went back to the main office and told the secretary that Mr. Samupindi had given me permission to use the computer. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was still in his track clothes, lying on the bed with his computer resting on his chest. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As Kushal checked the cub carefully from head to tail, one of the rangers radioed a message while the other sat in front of the computer. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks grow warmer—he is analyzing my brain like he would analyze a computer or a machine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that this is what it must’ve been like decades ago, before the cold lights of computer screens and tablets and phones permanently eliminated the peace of darkness from our lives. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He seemed to regard the button panel, madam, as some sort of typewriter or piano or I.B.M. computer. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, when Joy was learning about programming, computers were the size of rooms. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The receptionist with her blond, beauty-parlor hair types fast on her computer. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My computer had thousands of wireless networks to choose from. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

After graduating from Berkeley, Joy cofounded the Silicon Valley firm Sun Microsystems, which was one of the most critical players in the computer revolution. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In the past year she got herself a job at McDonald’s and started taking computer classes at a technical institute. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might just be information, like in a computer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“God, that is a brilliant album,” Radar said without looking away from the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is possible to learn when to listen to that powerful onboard computer and when to be wary of it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Somebody seventy-two light-years away was no doubt feverishly punching demands on the language computer for Karhidish, if no ton a philosophy-storage computer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My computer dings away, messages pouring in one after another. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Get it? Believe me, if they were watching through my computer screen, I’d know by now.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we headed toward it, I peered quickly into each office we passed, glancing at the computer monitors for Post-it Notes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Margaret shut down her computer, and we moved into the living room to listen to the tape. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Definitely. Minho and Newt know the code words—we’ll tell them they have to get them punched into the computer if we . . . well, you know.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m proud of you, Lucy. But if you miss another homework assignment, you will lose your computer for a week. And no TV. Or candy.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They passed doorway after doorway revealing grown-ups hunched in front of computers or talking on the phone, messy stacks of paper piled around them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At her kitchen computer command post, she tracks the girls’ reports and test scores on school Web pages. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pulled myself up and stared down the computer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Many computers and other female employees at the laboratory exchanged the daily routine of office life for a full-time position at home. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Kyle figured being locked in a library with computers on Friday night would be better than being stuck at home without any gaming gear at all. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He kept it on a personal computer, and he would type in a few words each day. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Geeks can get jobs almost anyplace. People everywhere need people who can maintain, repair, and understand computer systems. It’s a universal need, don’t you think?” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked behind the computer and the wires were a chaos she couldn’t decipher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t so much as touched a bar of soap, but I got out, wrapped a towel around my waist, and sat down at the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I apparently take too long to respond, because she says, “I mean, like, in a guy,” and turns to reopen her computer. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Jamie looks back at his computer screen, tapping his finger against the edge of the keyboard in time with the music. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What Netscape did was bring a new killer app—the browser—to this installed base of PCs, making the computer and its connectivity inherently more useful for millions of people. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gave his library card to Ms. White and took a computer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“The computer’s over there,” Teresa said, grabbing his attention. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

James pushed back a curtain concealing a closet filled with a desk and computers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The popular, pretty girls would hang out over here, and computer geeks would hang out over there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I turned back to the computer as the meeting broke up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nan wouldn’t use a computer for our town selections. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She jumped up and, frantic, she turned off the TV, the stereo, and the computer. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For Bill Gates, the lucky break was being born at the right time and getting the gift of a computer terminal in junior high. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

These programs open windows on a computer screen that stay open day and night. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I did wake up, and the main computer showed the slight rise in C021 had predicted. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used her computer to purchase a plane ticket to Los Angeles, booked an LA hotel, and researched used car dealers in the Las Vegas area. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One woman at work had invited him to lunch a couple of times, but since she didn’t know or care much about computers, he wasn’t interested. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifth is computer science—which isn’t science at all. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

All I really wanted to do was get back to a computer and start looking up everything I could about jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He's going: "Hey you, Doofus! Yeah, you with the hairy face, take it easy with that box. That box contains a computer, you know what a computer is?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

A digit changes on the clock at the upper comer of the computer screen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was suddenly irritated that he couldn’t go upstairs and sit in front of the computer. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She continues to hack away at her computer. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But neither of them was sitting at their computer that night. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

With the goal of turning lady math teachers into crack junior engineers, the laboratory sponsored a crash course in engineering physics for new computers, an advanced version of the class offered at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Can you get into the state files from our computer?" she asked Mr. Pendanski. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Uncle Myron had searched this computer, looking for clues about his brother’s fate. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Clarence and Clement were checking their email on the built-in desktop tablet computers. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the end of the tournament—and the countless cups of coffee I drank to get through it—I closed my computer, cleaned out my cubicle, and went back to the apartment to pack. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a degree, Jesse would likely remain in a cubicle in an office tower, fixing and maintaining the computers of people who didn’t like them but needed them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent her free hours in the library, so wondrously well lit; the sweep of computers, the large, clean, airy reading spaces, the welcoming brightness of it all, seemed like a sinful decadence. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This was part of his punishment—no phone, no computer, no contact with anyone in the outside world. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned back to the computer and typed in the URL for Virgin Atlantic. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Doris was staring at her computer screen, cradling in her palms a mug that said I V FLORIDA. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were driven to some kind of office; and while we waited, Atal, Khushal, and I played a computer game called Elf Bowling. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, for one thing, you could ask about the computer,” he said, his other hand taking mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He tells me that he used to be a computer programmer, but hated it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Izzy settled herself at one of the two computers in the library, waited for the modem to connect, and typed Pauline’s name into AltaVista. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You have to understand that I never would have used the library computers in the first place, except they block the wireless here. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I shall have to get you new school clothes. Remind me, dear, or else I’ll forget,” and she went back to typing things on the computer screen. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I'm also better on the computer than she is, but we don't have one over here yet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

James pushed back a curtain concealing a closet filled with a desk and computers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

James twisted his computer chair back and forth as he thought. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He could hear muffled footfalls elsewhere in the house, and was certain they'd be returning to the computer room any minute. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I spend the afternoon and the evening on the computer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He traveled extensively, grabbed naps in airports, and, usually managing to find a computer, stayed in touch with old friends while making new ones. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

No one has yet programmed a computer to be of two minds about a hard problem, or to burst out laughing, but that may come. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stalking her by way of my computer would win me a top spot on her hate list, if she found out about it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t even owned a computer since the police seized ours.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It turns out I did leave her computer unlocked, which is a huge relief. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I mean, binary code? Doesn’t that seem kind of obvious? Especially coming from a computer geek like you.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She left every single one of her computers at home? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Each room I went into, I would slip my passport into a computer and it would tell me the fate of the child. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure he was telling the truth? You were blindfolded on your way up there, remember. How do you know the computers aren’t sitting out in the open and you just couldn’t see them?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

One evening at the end of a long day of study, Salva sat down at the family computer and opened his e-mail. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is a file. It is an image, but my computer cannot view." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s for my history project. I just don’t want to fight with Zack over the computer.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I would get out of here and find a computer so I could check my e-mail and ask someone what happened. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go use a computer and see what I can find about Marcus’s case.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If you find the computer* you will find Jeanine. I assume you know a few ways to coerce her into doing what you want. She is not, after all, accustomed to pain,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The computer room is the most popular space in the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It is the Wal-Mart payroll manager who goes into the computer and shaves his employees’ hours to make his own performance look better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In a democratic country you'd think there would be room for both of them, but computers won't rest until I'm making my ribbons from torn shirts and brewing Wite-Out in my bathtub. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She closed her computer and sat back in her chair. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Nico opens the workstation on his computer, and all the boxes light up the screen. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Technically it was an old computer, or at least a machine made from salvaged parts, but it was faster and more efficient than any other piece of equipment he'd ever owned. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Captain Picard was delivering his first monologue of the episode when the doot-doot klaxon of Mom’s computer rang through the house. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had done much to transform the position of computer from a proto-clerical job into one of the laboratory’s most valuable assets. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I enter 3 adoption forms into the computer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the computer lab Mrs. Johnson says, Our project is on the state of Virginia. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go over to the computers and he says, “Right, give me an author.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

You can type in your book title at the computer catalog and get directions like Three paces to the left and look down or Pillar closest to fern, climb up halfway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then I went straight to the computer lab to look up the word “Holocaust.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I took a shower, changed into comfy pj’s, and was sitting here doodling when my computer dinged. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It appeared to have been assembled by hand, its pages printed on a computer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t really care where they lived, as long as they found decent jobs, had good Net access, and met some computer types to hang out with. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you do a quick computer check for a John Doe at the adult detention center?” the officer asked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Benji also got a second new computer, more sneakers, cowboy boots, and a drone. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was lying on my bed with my computer balanced on my pillow. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I want to do something with my life besides fix computers in an office tower. I want to make a difference. I want to do interesting work, to be around ideas,” he said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do this and we’ll enter all your adoption papers into the computer.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the computers would be constructed in the modern buildings he had seen opposite the airstrip. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As the computers’ work grew in scope and importance, however, a girl who impressed engineers with her mathematical prowess might be invited to join them working full-time for their tunnel or group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I enter her long, thin chamber, which has a computer and two chairs and an array of tubes and robes on hooks on the wall. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’m shutting down the computer for the night, when Mom walks in with her stern-mom face on. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever the submarine had been delivering on the jetty, it couldn’t be anything to do with computers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Daddy left his computer laying around. Seems like he wanted to know all about his future juvenile delinquent superstar.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The office was just an office—certificates framed on the walls, books on a bookshelf, computer humming on the desk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The graying middle-aged nurse who doesn’t attend to the patients but sits by and monitors the computers and phones, gives a little nod and stands up as if accepting a nomination. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the task, every number in the stack of papers she produced matched the computer’s output; the computer’s wit matched hers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The family computer was in the old part of the house, what had been the front room before the renovation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On January 1, he said, computer systems all over the world would fail. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Joey said, “You make your newspaper on a computer, and then you can print up as many copies as you want. Simple.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Lucky for me, the tech specs for everything are right here in the computer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, thanks for telling me,” said Fadi, trying to turn back to the computer. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, all gay men do not love the theater, any more than all black men excel at basketball or all Asians work with computers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The simulations stimulate the amygdala* which is responsible for processing fear, induce a hallucination based on that fear, and then transmit the data to a computer to be processed and observed.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I deal mostly with nurses and other computer nerds and they come from the same kind of world I do, so we know how to talk to each other,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He saw me mixing songs on my computer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the end of fifth period, I’m still so busy thinking about it that I don’t even notice Austin barreling through the doorway into the computer lab right as I’m trying to get out. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There is a Juliet balcony off the bedroom, in one corner of which Moushumi sets up her desk, her computer and printer, her files. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would have preferred that the money go toward a desktop computer, but I decided to keep my mouth shut. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The team that occupied most of the new building managed its own section of computers, like all the laboratory’s divisions now. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I search my computer for a while longer and finally turn it off and head to bed. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The break room was empty save for a computer technician sipping a cup of coffee. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As good as that computer was, it took the eyes of the pilot to pick the best landing spot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just put it in the box,” she said in a monotone voice, not looking up from her computer. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

You sit at the computer, open the browser, and log in. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She jabbed the Enter button so hard, the computer shook. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Mr. Shephard go to the computer first, and he shows me how to type in Langston Hughes’s name and pick which books I want to find. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Later, the county clerk looked at the computer in front of her as she talked to Nali. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Filling it with computer banks and meeting rooms, barracks and arsenals. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From his series of computer perches, Jesse had grown up at odds with the conventional educational system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, said Mundie, “a huge amount of data and creativity was accumulating in all those computers,” but there was no easy, interoperable way to share it and mold it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I looked at my computer and at the calendar on the wall. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With an hour left before my privileges were up and Dad would take back the computer, I was determined to finish compiling a feel-good playlist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I very quickly shut the window, and oblige when she tells me that today is not a computer day, and that I am to come down for breakfast. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“She was a computer programmer. I have a book about her that my dad got me. I think he’s trying to inspire me to work with computers instead of animals,” she laughs. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And they think that computers don’t have this homunculus. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its three integrated computers and most of its housekeeping functions—for example, its temperature-control system—are localized in its middle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re going to the computer lab so you can do your research. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white cardboard sign on a table in the back of the cafeteria beckoned them, its crisply stenciled black letters spelling out the lunchroom hierarchy: colored computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They took my phone away. And my computer. And I’m grounded for two weeks.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It would be easy with computer technology, you know. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Joy got a job with a computer science professor so he could program over the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He started tapping the built-in tablet computer’s screen. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

To determine those differences, the Times relied on a computer model based on the Treasury’s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Dude, I don’t even have my own room, much less my own computer. My parents have this ancient Dell that’s practically dead.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of experimentation, I discovered that the only computer that would power on was one of the oldest, the IMSAI8080, the same model of computer Matthew Broderick owned in WarGames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Between computer screens, I see Max's hand reach toward the sweatshirt. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I hope you didn’t bring the Asian kid along thinking he’s a computer genius. Because I am not,” Takumi said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Luke glanced back at the computer screen, where the conversation continued. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he entered the search term “AIDS” into a computer, thousands of studies came up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Once she was called up, she quickly made her way to her computer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The digital kind were all long gone, as far as Mark could guess—wiped away when the computers and servers all fried. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow we start shipping the computers out,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She knew it wouldn’t be another puzzle-loving computer nut with a cowlick sidekick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Pembroke knew exactly whom to call: those high school kids from Lakeside who had been running up thousands of hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was Matthew, Brij’s friend, waving to him from the computer lab. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hung out with Jack in homeroom, English, history, computer, music, and science, which were all the classes we had together. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

With computers in my class, the sky’s the limit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dimple looked up from her computer and shrugged. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Stuff getting sold, like the silver teapot my grandma gave my mom and our laptop computer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There had been a flood that ruined two computers’ worth of pictures and a bunch of framed ones. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My friend Jeff said he was going to pull my computer plug out of the wall if I didn’t bring this mission to a conclusion. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several laptop computers were scattered around on the tables. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think that I might be able to get one working computer from the three. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Only when he got to the two computer printouts did he begin to feel better. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, John Tu donated thirty-five computers to our class, and what a difference they make! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mother had given up homeschooling by then, but still had a computer, and there were books in the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Was it the room with all the computers and junk from that movie?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I think it is reasonable to assume that the arrow for computers is the same as that for humans. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone could have come into the apartment and carted away everything in it, except for the computer, and Jesse wouldn’t have noticed or perhaps cared that much. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting down with his computer and painstakingly analyzing videotapes, second by second. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I say, getting up and going to my computer. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Jobs worked on an assembly line to build computers and was so fascinated that he tried to design his own... Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Familiar examples include standardized weights and measures, electrical voltages and cables, computer file formats, and paper currency. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You can help me enter these into the computer,” I say, patting the pile. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Hugo has a laptop in his room—since it’s the weekend and a school computer isn’t an option, I am going to risk checking in. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She switched on the computer and began typing furiously again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before there were computers in Silicon Valley, before the land gave way to industrial design, there was fruit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He wheeled himself toward a bookcase that opened to reveal a small room filled with computer equipment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her room is dark except for her desk light, and I see her furiously typing away on her computer, her long brown hair pulled into a messy bun. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

From computer science he made his way to honors calculus, where a black balloon from the Friday pep rally floated casually from his knapsack. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you ask James? I’m sure he can spare one of his dozen computers for your games.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes drop down to her own computer across the table from him, and she begins to type, so he may as well too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the opposite wall was my desk, my computer perched on top, a stack of books sitting next to it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We can also ask the computer to run a constellation forward into time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a computer interface there, which Citra used for her studies—because unlike Faraday, Scythe Curie did not shun the digital when it came to learning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She lifts the computer from her lap and hands it to Molly. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But in the 1980s and 1990s a gush of new information about the first Americans came in from archaeological digs, anthropological laboratories, molecular biology research units, and linguists’ computer models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unnerving computer printouts from the pharmacist began arriving: “Maximum benefit reached.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe computers can be used to help in this, although I rather doubt it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deflating its balloons, the onboard computer reported the successful landing back to Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started typing questions about fencing into the search bar on my computer, and one hour later realized I needed to give fencing another try. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

MMO players could only see these online environments through a small two-dimensional window—their desktop computer monitor—and they could only interact with it by using keyboards, mice, and other crude input devices. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And for all their advantage in speed, the computers could still process only one job at a time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For some reason, whenever she was talking over the computer, Mom had to make sure the sound of her voice reached low Earth orbit. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then I booted up the computer so I could see how many people had e-mailed to check whether I was OK. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then I closed the computer and never looked at those words again. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I played with it all the time, and Dad played too, calling out deck numbers for the computer to take us to like we were really on board the Enterprise. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hate computers for any number of reasons, but I despise them most for what they've done to my friend the typewriter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I settled into the chair’s vinyl padded seat and faced the computer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The coffin was a wonder, Daft Donald wrote on his computer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the documents he just had open on his computer. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But, in fact, what I was also doing was making the big computer in your brain—your adaptive unconscious—think about the state of being old. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, the computer keys began their soft clickety-clack, clickety-clack. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

At recess they’d made snow forts and had snowball fights and Jack was a master—his fort was bigger and thicker than everyone else’s, and his snowballs seemed to have targeting computers on them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Then I need to do some research on your computer, okay?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The advantage of doing the IAT on a computer is that the responses are measurable down to the millisecond, and those measurements are used in assigning the test taker’s score. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The General sent a message on the limo’s computer to seal the gates of his house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Artemis was anxious to bring up the file on his computer, but first he decided to call in on Mother. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There’s no computer in the room, no phone. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were exhibits devoted to all of GSS’s most popular games, including several arcade ports of titles they’d originally released for home computers and consoles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That was just long enough to make Mom and me have to go around the entire house resetting all of the alarm clocks, VCRs, computers, and stereos. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents have never believed in grounding us or taking away our phones or computers, all the things Amanda’s parents do to her when she gets caught breaking the rules. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I bet the novel’s boring, but it would be fun to have a computer.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe after I finish this paper,” I said as I stared at my computer. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She's taking my computer off my desk and entering a search. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“My mother has been learning how to make clay pots since she retired from her neuroscience work. The metallic sculptures are my father’s, welded together with leftover computer parts from his repair shop.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nico opens up a bass synthesizer and uses the computer keys to lay down a bass line. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Telescopes could now take thousands of pictures and let a computer detect the telltale bright spots that marked a supernova explosion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had barely finished eating before Ifemelu turned her computer back on. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t watch much television. You know I don’t have a computer. In a lot of ways my life is just as it was twenty or even forty years ago.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One system at a time, I cleanly shut them all down, ending with the main computer itself. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the computers reboot, the screens flash red where it happened. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was far more interested in classes that taught him how to use a computer and find information on the Internet. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The point of the computer program, which Schoenfeld created, was to teach students about how to calculate the slope of a line. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Calder noticed a hefty pile of papers next to her computer. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It could expand into a full-size laptop, shrink into a tablet computer, or fold into a wafer of metal smaller than a cell phone. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know Finn and Rocket were going to find her phone in the dresser drawer that very first day, which made us search her computers right away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They probably still loathe school, but when they go home, their computers are passports to a vast, complex, and communicative world, one still largely invisible to many parents, educators, and other adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents took my computer away today, because of what they saw on television. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not every family has a computer and, if they do, they might not have the Internet,” I tell her. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dylan takes a seat at Quinton's computer and mashes the power button. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I printed out a map of Central Florida, tacked the map to the wall above my computer, and then added a tack for each of the five locations. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Videogames and computers meant more to me than spending time with my parents. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Real estate salesmen know more people than computer hackers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The direction of time in which a computer remembers the past is the same as that in which disorder increases. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if she isn’t sure of anything and this uniformed man behind the desk and the computer will have all the answers in the universe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Wow, this is cool,” breathes Jay, awed by the computer’s map of bright colors, straight and curved lines. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When we reached our destination, it was quite late, but Farmer eagerly, and no doubt with some anxiety, opened his computer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was, but Clancy had taken care to wipe everything else from the computer. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

How long had he been working with computers? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the game, even as they sat at different computers, they palled around, hanging out mostly together, going on virtual quests. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We spend the rest of the day entering adoption information into the computer and collecting my own sampling. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There he rewrote another computer language—Java—and his legend grew still further. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She pushed my essay aside and tapped a key on her computer to make the screen brighten again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Besides donating computers, John Tu has given a couple of Freedom Writers jobs at his company with benefits and Christmas bonuses. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing big headphones and a look of concentration as he presses buttons on the computer that send music blasting out into the room. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Woman operator in Bangalore trying to help an American woman with a computer problem that she has never heard before: “What is the problem with this machine, ma’am? The monitor is burning?” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Emily raced down the hallway to find her dad settling in front of the family computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some anonymous person hacked into the computer systems and sent out a mass email to the entire school district’s database. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And on the floors below us, in order of descent, were three small firms of computer dealers, attorneys, and real estate brokers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s a little awful that we have five computers—Shady Creek is that kind of suburb, but still. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

After all, the daily dose of computers or telecommunications was still far away from most people. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is older than the trips to the moon or computers or stereo systems or television. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A set of computer investigations has examined the evolution of a flat, condensing disk of gas and dust of the sort that is thought to lead to stars and planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jen said the stuff from the computer was true,” Luke said defensively. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom patted the space on the couch next to her, closed the computer, and turned off the television. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The great surprise was on the wall next to the computer desk: bookcases as tall as me and twice as long, filled with vinyl records. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now all the money existed solely as digits on a computer screen. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cutting-edge computer of the period would hardly have been seen as distracting, unless by virtue of its sheer size people couldn’t take their eyes off of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They say I can use the computer for my homework, but then sit there behind me as I make up things to research. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You already had a car and a computer,” she said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had hoped to receive a computer, but truthfully, I didn’t believe that I would raise my grade point average high enough to win. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a new computer to transport, webcams and zip drives, an additional monitor. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he adjusted the pillows behind his back and opened his computer to his secret file. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Principal Rivera was staring at her computer screen when I walked up to her door. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Dad is on the computer in the kitchen. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I want to go immediately to the library to check the computers again. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

While Nicole was in surgery and Dave Bendix at the police station, I was home in my dumpy little bedroom, doing my thing, remotely scanning cruel people’s phones and computers, looking for nastiness to leak. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She didn’t understand all the computer stuff—not yet—but she understood paper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Anybody with a hooked-up computer can now communicate remotely and instantaneously—through the spoken word or through the written—with a potential audience of millions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Running system agent software was a little like having a virtual personal assistant—one that also functioned as a voice-activated interface with your computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He knows how to delete browser histories and whatever, he can cover his tracks perfectly well, but I know' that I turned the computer off before I left. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checks the computer system at school, which states that Erin is being taught by home tutors. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push myself off the couch several minutes later, then wander over to my desk and turn on my computer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Dad sat hunched over in his recliner, his weary gaze glued to the computer in his lap. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The marriage of computers and communications brought so much utility. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I put the computer back on the table before he gets into the room, but he knows something’s up and he just stares at me and says, “What’s going on?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on Thursdays, when Joey was assembling everything on the computer screen, Cara often had to cut articles or features that took up too much space. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Jesse Announced, he thought it was time I had my first computer game “kill.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From police in a Massachusetts town, I heard of a fourteen- year-old boy sitting in his bedroom with his father s shotgun in his mouth, a computer screen open to Slashdot. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can connect the device to a computer and download any song I want. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The hallway opened to a large space filled with cubicles, the hum of computers, the rustle of papers, and a few low voices. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I... I don’t really know how to use a computer,” stammered Cara, blushing. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha is clever enough to delete the first paragraph of the Mark Twain paper and go through the computer file and misspell a dozen words before he prints it out. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After slightly over six minutes of engine firing, our computer told us we had arrived, and we had! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once you’ve finished cleaning your room for the day,” Mom intervened, “then Dad will give you an hour or two on the family computer. Right?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He hands me the book and turns back to the computer. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The computer has detailed maps, so I figured I could navigate by landmarks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the bank, we went to Best Buy, which is this giant store filled with TVs and computers and cell phones and things. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I repeat, following his distraught gaze to the computer screen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She compares her numbers to the computer’s numbers and punches in a bunch of decimals for our commission. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z